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word count days 254 and 255
Yesterday I produced about 1000 keepable words for Skein. Beginning in media res I kill the hero first thing. This sorta creates a gap in my lineup, but I'm developing a workaround ( Read more... ) -
Stumbled on everyone but me
My friend Liane told me she'd somehow linked one of my journal entries to something called Stumble Upon and she hoped folks would read what I'd written ( Read more... ) -
Well, I was going to post something thoughtful...
I did not lose anyone in the 9/11 attacks. My brother-in-law and his partner were vacationing in Mexico when the airliner demolished his office at the Pentagon. A cousin who had called in sick watched the second plane fly into where she should have been on the TV in a doctor's waiting room. Friends and friends of friends and members of our church ( Read more... ) -
Word count days 252 and 253
As predicted, writing time for the past two days was devoted to mapping out the major scenes and playing a bit with the try/fail sequence. I think I've got one too many cycles and am considering which almost-but-not-quite effort to cut out ( Read more... ) -
Word count day 251
Today I invested an hour or so in mapping out my plot. Creating on graph paper a storyboard cum flow chart with boxes and arrows quantifying my originally brainstormed narrative outline.
I found myself questioning my initial decision to go with what is pretty much an off-the-shelf western European setting. ( Read more... ) -
word count day 250
Day 250 was devoted to groundwork -- the kind that can be a time-sink, but conducted with an eye on the clock ( Read more... ) -
word count day 249
Finished the last of my day job related paperwork around 1AM. (Yes, it was stuff I should have been working on all weekend.) Between 1 and 2-something I brainstormed an outline for a traditional fantasy story. I'll look at it again tonight to make sure it's not too formulaic and get to work writing the thing. -
Writing again
Over at Novel Spaces, Terence Taylor has posted a truly telling piece on the lies writers tell themselves. Go read Lies and Misdemeanors. I'll wait.
Actually, while you're at it, Terence says his own essay was in response to Tananarive Due's essay Writing Through the Fear; also well worth reading. Go ahead; I'll wait. (You do realize I'm not ( Read more... ) -
Ron Paul, hero of the Mosque. Who'dda thunk?
Ron Paul has written the truth.
Don't believe it? Neither did I.
In fact, praise of any Paul is something I never imagined typing.
But here's what he wrote:
Ron Paul speaks plainly to the racist Republican attack on the First Amendment masquerading as "patriotism."Sure, he's phrasing it as a debate on property rights, but I can't disagree with ( Read more... )
