Yeah, I know. Supposed to be daily updates. I get it. Bottom line: things are going pretty much as they need to. As expected, on Thursday I lost half a day to a doctor’s appointment, then took care of errands Friday (yesterday afternoon) before having a great conversation with Lisa (the friend/writer who is Daring […]
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Day 2: 2500 Words and Thoughts On Time
I had another pretty good day that resulted in just short of 2500 words. I’m doing a lot of exploratory work at this point. I think I’m writing out of order to some degree, and that some of this is going to move out into later parts of the story—but I wrote them now because […]
Read More ...Day One: 500 Words and a Look Into Happiness
Day one of the Novel Dare is in the books and despite the fact that I only created about 500 words, it was a pretty good one. Having decided to write the weird baseball SF/fantasy/thriller, I decided I had to set my brain by going back and touching base Casey Neal, my main character. So […]
Read More ...And So It Begins: Novel Dare, Day 1
I did NaNoWriMo* once. It wasn’t much fun. (* National Novel Writing Month is where several hundred thousand people sit down to cram 50,000 words into a month’s time). For me the problem is that NaNoWeiMofeels feels more like a carnival than a practice, more a flash of frivolity than going to a place of […]
Read More ...Back to the Word Factory
If you’ve been paying any attention to what’s going on here on this blog (and why would you be, it’s been quiet quiet enough here you could hear a gnat fart…so to speak), you’ll have figured out I’ve been struggling with what should be the last book of my Stealing the Sun series. It’s been […]
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I’ve been struggling (once again) to put the final touches on what I think is the final book of my Stealing the Sun series, so I took a few days and went back to read the last few volumes of the series. We’ll see if that helps. It was a good process in that it […]
Read More ...Creativity: “Not enough is said about abandoning crap”
Not sure what to make of that title, are you? A bit shocked? Perhaps worried about it being a bit, er, defeatist? Well, read on, MacDuff. Ira Glass on Storytelling from All1Soul on Vimeo. A few weeks back, I wrote about how I get better at writing. As sometimes happens, I received feedback on it, […]
Read More ...Thoughts on Writing From Multiple Perspectives
Recently, a friend of mine dropped me a note. He had picked up Starburst, Book 2 of my most recent series. Received book Starburst, yesterday. I’m just 30 pages in, but it sure changed the sympathies of the reader as to who are the bad guys. This totally made my day. If there’s something I’ve […]
Read More ...Beginnings and Endings
I’ve been thinking about openings and closings. When it comes to storytelling must-haves, I think these are the two most important things to get your mitts around. Sure, every element is important—stories that waiver in their basic foundation are not going anywhere, and work without engaging characters (or pick any other element you want) face […]
Read More ...How Do I Get Better at Writing?
In the months before we moved to Arizona, I met up for lunch with a young writer who asked lots of “how do I get started” kinds of questions. He was an energetic guy with lots of passion and just the right amount of oblivion to the idea failure to ensure he would make it […]
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