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writing update – the end is in sight!
Seriously. It’s creepy. I’m sitting at about 90k words right now, with 4ish chapters left to write – and it’s the climactic battle and fallout – FUN stuff to write. Not that the rest hasn’t been fun,...
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why always “said”, but rarely “walked” ?
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen this advice given to aspiring fiction writers: “Use only said, avoid alternates as much as you can.” So, you know, “John said x”, “Betty said y”, never “John...
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halfway, again
So, I’ve been working on my second “book” for about a month now. I’m 32k in, which should be about halfway. I’m also at chapter 15 out of my planned 20 on my outline. Although the final chapters will...
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another draft down
Finished! At 63ish K words. And I hate it now. It is, as Anne Lamott would say, a “shitty first draft” – which is OK. The problem is that at this point it’s also a shitty book. There are bits I like...
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So I picked up some books at random today
3: Elric of Melnibone (1st Elric book, been meaning to start this series for a literal decade) The Forge in the Forest, Winter of the World bk 2 (cheap used paperback to hold me over until I can find...
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where do we go from here?
As adults. As people burdened with sadness and life, muck-stained eyelids and hearts heavy with prescience and survivor’s guilt? I don’t know, but this is a damn cheerful sounding song isn’t it?...
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A contest? Might as well.
Especially considering there is nothing to lose. So, Bethany pointed this contest out to me, and I’ve been waffling around debating doing it or not doing it, but I really can’t see any reason not to....
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Thinking about writing. And shapeshifting.
So, I’ve decided that I’ll take the plunge and post an excerpt from my first book later today (I have two finished, first books in two different series). Maybe tonight. Probably just the first...
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TCotSS excerpt: 1st 5
OK, so I didn’t get to it yesterday, but I don’t see anyone complaining – so here’s the first bit. This is the first 5 pages or so, basically the section I submitted when agents requested the first...
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waking things
So, I think I can say that the UMoB was a success… why? Because I finally forced myself to write something in one of my books yesterday! I generated a solid 1000 words in a scene that I had no idea...
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Nanowrimo 2013
So I did the bit with the nano and the wrimo this year, for the first time. Maybe the last, we’ll see. It was a lot of work and focus… and I didn’t actually “finish” a novel, which is a little...
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back into creation
No, not -ism. As in the creation of things. Like worlds and words. Sometimes worlds with words. Rarely words with worlds; that part is much tougher. I guess it hasn’t been that long – as my hiatuses...
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