Writing Process
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Monday, November 10th, 2008We all knew it was bound to happen…you can’t keep up a 2,000 word a day life (up from nothing since I was editing before this) without a few stumbling blocks.
Today is my first one.
I would rather do anything but write today. Anything! ANYTHING! I’ve been listening to British Next Top Model for God’s sake! [...]
Writing Frustration!
Monday, October 27th, 2008 I am frustrated by my writing. By the way I write, by the process in which my brain organizes these novels and processes them. By my own lack of work ethic when it comes to these damn novels.
I am trying to edit the novel I wrote last year, and it is proving very [...]
Ideas, like government cheese, are cheap!
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“Ideas are cheap!”
Listening to Murr Lafferty say this at Balticon, was like a bomb being dropped in my lap. My initial response was a mix of curiosity and fear, as if wrapping my head around the idea might cause my creative juices to explode. It would have been very easy to dismiss this most dangerous [...]
The Ebb and Flow of Writing
Thursday, June 26th, 2008There are days that you can’t stop me writing unless you pay me, and even then it might not happen. There are days that the story is hot and I want to pin it down before I lose it in the avalanche of celebrity gossip and computer hotkeys. I know you know them, the days [...]
Word and Tune, Hand in Hand?
Friday, June 13th, 2008It must be something in the air or water or weather, but lately everyone in my reader (and remind me later to do a neat little update on my latest net gadgets) has been talking about writing and music and I just wanted to take a moment to chime in.
Here are a few interesting tidbits [...]