Writing Life

This post isn’t really for you. It’s for me. Friends to whom I whine about my lack of progress: you know what to do. Two years ago today, in my quest to avoid whatever I was working on, I added up what I’ve written over the years. Talking about Ray Bradbury’s million words, it...
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So…quitting the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM didn’t actually happen. When I backed off my guys for a bit, they came up with some answers. They waited till we were halfway through the frakking book because they’re assholes, yes, but…answers. Along with stumbling about trying to fix the implausible plot in this book, I’ve...
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So I mentioned I’ve been wandering Chuck Wendig’s blog. Today I stumbled on this post:  Six Questions to Ask as You Write. (Still not for the faint of heart–but damn, he cracks me up!) If you don’t care to go over there, here are the six things to ask yourself about a scene, in...
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I don’t want to look at my story. I never want to see it again. Ever. Except that I do. While I’m setting fire to it. And then I want to watch it burn, bits of it floating up into the sky, carrying its flamey destruction with it… So I realized today that except...
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I don’t even know where that frakking day went. I got a very few things done, but…yeesh. MOVE, you stupid story! MOOOVVVVEEE.
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