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Nose to the grindstone (A writing update)
Time for a brief update on the writing business! At the Oscars the other night, Robert De Niro presented one of the screenwriting awards, and in his presentation speech, he said this: “The mind of a writer can be a … Continue reading
Should the dead guy be blinking? (a writing update)
When they were filming From Russia With Love back in 1962, there was a scene the producers really liked. But they had to cut the scene because, when they screened the film for friends and family, the director’s 12-year-old kid … Continue reading
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Why NOT write fiction?
I was going to link this post by longtime blogging acquaintance Will Duquette in a Sentential Links post, but I realized that there’s an awful lot going on in that post, so much so that it warrants its own response … Continue reading
A writing update
A bit less than halfway through the book, I’ve cut over 10K words…. #editing #AmWriting, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. I’m a little less than halfway through applying my red-ink markings to the PRINCESSES IN SPACE II manuscript, and as of … Continue reading
Killing the Darlings
“In writing, you must kill your darlings.” –William Faulkner So, I’ve been making progress on the first phase of editing on Princesses In SPACE!!! The Sequel to Get Equal (not the actual title). It’s going to be tough making my … Continue reading
THIS must be the cover….
UPDATED below. UPDATED again, below. Well, my endless search for cover-art for Princesses In SPACE!!! (not the actual title) has come to an end. This has to be the cover. Obviously it won’t be, but…this is SO evocative of what I … Continue reading
Writing: It only LOOKS boring!
I’ve taken enough writing-related photos over the last grumble-grumble years that it finally struck me: I needed to collect them in a Flickr set. So, here’s the Flickr set. Mostly screengrabs of my writings or word counts, or photos of … Continue reading
In the immortal words of John Scalzi, “Flooooba gunna, dudes.”
With that, I am officially signing off from this year’s National Novel Writing Month. Eighty-seven thousand words in one month? Wow. That was quite the crunch. Now, quite a bit of it was easier than it may sound since I … Continue reading
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I finished!
And now…to actually complete the novel. Still, I’ve been on fire this month, in terms of productivity. I wonder where I fall on that guy’s notion that you have to do something for 10,000 hours to not suck at it? … Continue reading