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Achievement Unlocked
So, today I finished [Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit], which now weighs 128,000 words and 210 pages. It's rough in places and I'm just going to go back to the start of the book and begin again (with the editing process, instead of the writing)... but as of today I have officially Finished A Book I Started Writing ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes crazy works.
So it is November yet again - Livejournal is a place I write in only intermittently, because compared to my prior usage, it's a dead social network - and that means looking in the mirror and staring down National Novel Writing Month. I've done it twice now for [Black Science] and come up with the lion's share of the text I have to date - 100,000 ( Read more... ) -
Writing Update
So, I have been working for years now, slowly but surely, on a piece I've been calling "[Black Science]" (with the brackets meaning "this name currently fits here, who knows what it's actually called"). I have moved on it at best in fits and starts, with the last real progress being a second go around National Novel Writing Month this past ( Read more... ) -
How to catch up on things?
So, where to begin. "Begin at the beginning, continue on until the end, then stop," I was once told about how to write a novel, and while that may be grand fine advice for the person issuing that, it's not exactly what I would term "helpful," to me ( Read more... ) -
Fearless: Writerly Inventory
There are things in my life I am not doing as well at as I would like, and the only rational thing to do is to look at what I am doing (and why I am doing it) so that I may begin correcting for my failings and moving forward instead of staying stuck in whatever ruts or quagmires I have managed to inhabit. I've identified three main categories: ( Read more... ) -
A Night In The Lonesome October
And so the day arrived, cloudy, and with a small wind out of the north. ( October 31st) -
A Night In The Lonesome October
There was not a great deal to do today. ( October 30th) -
A Night In The Lonesome October
Following lunch at Jill’s place - to which Bubo was also invited, having finally acknowledged Graymalk to be a cat of a different category - I took a walk back to the ruin of the Good Doctor’s place. ( October 29th)