I define writer’s block as the strong desire to write, but no words show up, for an extended amount of time. I’m very lucky. I don’t get writer’s block. There have been times in my life when I haven’t written, but that bubbling up need to write, that boiling of words just under the surface,
Orycon was fun, and I got very inspired, as usual. I didn’t attend that much of the con — disappeared and was quiet a lot, got a lot of sleep, spent time writing. What parts I did participate in were fun. I don’t know if I’ll attend next year — it’s really going to depend
See — I know this. I know my process, myself. And yet — sometimes I forget, or don’t see it. Hence the subject line. On Thursday, I was having a few problems with the section I was typing up. I’d originally written it with the main character interacting with a second character because that would
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I know that some people don’t believe in muses, at least, not as a separate entity from their creative writing process. Me — when I’ve imagined my muse — she’s always been a fast-talking, cigarette-smoking, scotch-guzzling bitch with a broad New York accent. She’s been quiescent for most of the novel — I think she’s
I did another 11 1/2 pages by long hand today. I figure that brings the total for chapter 5 up to about 4000 words. It will probably grow longer — just sitting here, thinking about it, I can already spot a couple of parts that need significantly more verbage. But right now I’m just going
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Writing went a bit slower this morning. I think it went so quickly last night because I was merely writing out a section that I’d already thought a lot about, and had written in my head, more than once, while this morning I was in the section beyond that. Some unexpected things turned up, but
Working, working, working. . . Did about 3000 words today on chapter three. I’m really happy with it. I think it’s going to be a shorter chapter though, maybe only 4000 words total. Famous last words — the last time I thought that it would only take 1000 words to finish up a chapter I
This weekend I had a major revelation as to why I wasn’t writing how I wanted to be writing. The adjustments I’ve made so far seem to be working — I added about 2000 new words to the novel this weekend, as well as replaced untold others, completing my rewrite of chapters three and four.
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