One of the things that I continue to work on for myself is my perception of myself as essentially a lazy being. On the one hand, I know I’m lazy. I spend an awful lot of time goofing off, reading blogs, playing games, etc. On the other hand, I’m also aware that I’m not actually […]
One of the joys of novel writing–no, really, it’s a joy!–is remembering that, at least for me, every novel is different. Different characters, different feel, different process. I’m currently writing a new novel. I’m in that messy middle, where things aren’t coming together and I don’t know where I’m going. (About 40,000 words in.) I
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In America, it’s Thanksgiving weekend. Both me and my sweetie have taken off a bit extra as well, so we have not been working since Wednesday, and we’re also both taking Monday off. For the past few years, my Thanksgiving tradition has included a writing marathon. I have several days off, and all I do
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One of the things that I’ve been told I’m good at, in terms of writing, is creating fully rounded secondary characters. I’ve been going through “The Popcorn Thief” the last couple of weeks, reading every chapter out loud. This novel is all about Voice, and my ear will catch things my eye misses. But I’m
Earlier this morning I finished the second draft of “The Popcorn Thief” — the make-it-not-broke draft. Blue ribbon prize at the Kentucky State Fair for ten cobs of the best popping corn I wrote the first draft fast and furious. I knew I would miss things, though, so I kept good notes, in a spreadsheet,
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I blog about what inspires me both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there. There are lots of things that inspire me to write, like fashion and weird photography and poetry and food and things. For the month of August, I’ve been doing a challenge. Basically, it’s
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I haven’t written much this week. Not at all. Some of it was physical–felt like shit for a couple of days, got hit by a freight-train of a migraine that knocked me on my ass for a day as well. But I could have written other days. I just didn’t. Couldn’t figure out WTF was
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Recently, Dean Wesley Smith blogged about writing a 70,000 word novel in 10 days. It was fascinating to read how he did it, his attitudes toward writing, etc. A lot of it is apply butt to chair, trust the process, trust your writerly brain. Dean writes into the dark, has no idea what the ending
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I didn’t really write today. Maybe only 1500 words. I needed a break, after writing so hard and fast. I’ll still finish this chapter up tomorrow, and maybe do one more before the end of the year. I went back and looked at my stated writing/publishing goals for 2012. I did most of what I
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Remember that whole plan I had about writing a short story a week until the end of the year? Then life happened. I got really sick for 2+ weeks. The third week, I was recovering, but I couldn’t find any enthusiasm for any of the short stories I’d kind of been thinking about. I figured
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