Made it to about 2300 words on my new story. One more, short scene and I’ll be done with the first draft. I don’t think it’ll need too much clean-up to be ready to go, but I’m saying that without having read through it. Note to self: I’ve been wrong before. I’m guessing this will […]
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Writing in Reverse
Yesterday, as I was driving into work, a classic song from the 80s came on the radio. It was one of those multitude of songs that kind of all fade into one big mass of songs (perhaps you know the type–one of those that immediately make me think of Hugh Grant and his thrown hip […]
Read More ...Hitting the “Send” Button
There’s a time in every story when I think it’s just about the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen. Literally perfect. This is always immediately after I’ve written “The End” for the last time and I’m still awash in the sense of power that has brought me to that piece. Makes sense, eh? Unfortunately, there […]
Read More ...One Draft, FInished
It’s always nice when the Cards win. # Finished the “shitty first draft” of a story this morning. It’s got a few holes in it, but I powered through them to get to the end because I wanted to drive to the end of the story as I was feeling it. I’ll spend the next […]
Read More ...Optimistic Again
I’ve been working on a new short story, of course, and really struggling with the scope of the effort. I need it to fit into a short piece, but every idea I latch onto is … well … bigger. When I sit down to write on it, I feel like one of those guys in […]
Read More ...Waves of Insight?
This is apparently the time of picking up “old” pieces and working on them. If you’re following me semi-closely, you’ll know that the past two weeks have been spent developing “Primes” a 9,000 word story that grew out of three sentences I had written back in 2005 and that I found laying around untouched since. […]
Read More ...Treadmill Desk: Status Update
As I’ve noted in a few places, Lisa and I bought ourselves a pair of treadmill desks for our Christmas present. They arrived last week, and we started using them immediately. That means we’re moving into week two of our desktop treadmills, so I thought I would give you a bit of a report on […]
Read More ...To SFWA or Not to SFWA
There was a time when I was a card-carrying member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, otherwise known as SFWA. I let my membership lapse for a collection of reasons, specifically including the fact that a huge amount of its energy was being spent defining who could be a part of it […]
Read More ...Get With it, February
Nice news comes today in the form of an email from Matt Bennardo, who is accepting my work for the One Sentence Story anthology he’s working on with Katie Sekelsky. I’m terribly excited to be a part of this project, as it sounds like great fun. Can’t wait to get hold of it. My story […]
Read More ...Second Drafts
It’s always good to finish the second draft of a story. Using the Anne Lamott version of the writing process, the first draft is just for getting everything down, and the second draft is for fixing everything up. Let’s skip her definition of the third draft (and beyond!) right now because she calls it the […]
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