Okay, so I’ve been talking about how I’ve been writing these days by basically just showing up at the keyboard and starting to type, that I pick up the virtual phone and listen to the character, and let the thing happen however it happens. And, yes, I’ve been pretty happy with the results. But…well… This […]
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A Thousand Words of Clarity
It’s been a week, though it didn’t seem like I got all that much done. And, I guess in reality I didn’t. But, of course, I did. [Geez, Ron, why do you have to make yourself sound so danged dense?] I took the weekend prior “off” to do some tax work, which is certainly done. […]
Read More ...Preparing for Success
Finished the read-through of my Book 2 draft. Still like it quite a bit, which doesn’t suck and all that. The main reason I decided to to a power-read on it was to take a look at the outline. I envision this story to happen over as many as six or eight books now, none […]
Read More ...Reading
I admit to being a bit stalled on the new short story. I think this is a major flaw in the concept of growing stories organically, but what the heck. So, rather than beat my head against the concrete, I’ve changed course and spent the morning reading the “shitty first draft” of the second book […]
Read More ...Morning Weirdness
I had a weird thing happen yesterday morning as I was writing. It was one of those little gems that pop themselves up every now and again, and that maybe wind up being nothing or maybe wind up being … well … not nothing. In a recent post, I noted that my writing process had […]
Read More ...Addressing A Vacuum
I feel like I’m in this incredibly strange position. While I’ve never considered myself to have ever really stopped writing, I admit fully that I’ve stepped extremely far from the center of the world I knew previously–though I guess it’s more appropriate to say I stopped moving, and the rest of the world kept right […]
Read More ...The Choices Are Endless
So I stripped out the back end of D-dad and took a different direction. The story’s wound up at about 3,400 words, now and I think it’s pretty much in its final form. Here’s a not-so-secret secret. Writing a 10,000 word story doesn’t take much longer than writing a 3,000 word story. For me, anyway. […]
Read More ...Another Draft 1 Bites the Dust
I finished the first draft D-Dad, the short story I mentioned yesterday. It registers now at 3200 words, and probably needs to be a touch shorter–the back end is a bit loose. But overall, I’m happy with it. The idea came as a response to a classic story I listened to while at the gym […]
Read More ...Novels, Jealousy, and a New Short
The best thing about having completed and shipped a novel some place, in my semi-humble opinion, is that it takes away the nagging desire to tinker and clears the way for other work. But the beast is off my desk now, and suddenly two days later I find myself nearing the end of a short […]
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