Only two days until I head off to Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp! This Thursday I was so busy I didn’t even think about liveblogging. It just went clean out of my mind. Next week I won’t be liveblogging either. As much fun as it would be to liveblog Boot Camp, it seems like [...]
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If you need a laugh, check out the truly awful sentences showcased in The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
My personal favorite?
Cynthia had washed her hands of Philip McIntyre – not like you wash your hands in a public restroom when everyone is watching you to see if you washed your hands but like washing [...]
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Liveblogging Wednesday has been permanently relocated to Thursday, on account of my Game Night being permanently relocated to Wednesday. Now, what am I going to cook?
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With my friend Becky, about six months ago. My summation: “I dunno. I think if I couldn’t get published traditionally, I’d have to take a good, hard look at my work.”
With my writing group, Wednesday night. My summation: “I think it’s a path to publication that is opening up for some people, like bloggers and [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for almost two months now. Sorry to disappoint you, Mom! But I had gotten my groove back, writing wise, and I didn’t want any distractions.
Now that I’m settled into the groove, I’m back to blogging. More tomorrow, but for now I’ll just mark my return with:
Three [...]
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Good News: I’ve finished my Comprehensive List of Revisions to Make.
Bad News: It’s long.
Good News: I am adding ten scenes and eliminating four. The extra six should easily make up the additional five thousand words I want to add to the book’s length.
Bad News: I have to write them.
Good News: There is [...]
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
I’m done with the book!
It currently weighs in at about sixty-five thousand words — a good five thousand below my goal. It’s probably publishable at 65K, but it’s definitely a little light, so I’ll be looking to add those extra five thousand words during editing (that’s about fifteen pages to you civilians).
It’s quite a [...]
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
So, I finished Along Came a Spider, which I enjoyed very much. It wasn’t my favorite book ever, but it was by no means the Hacksville one might have expected after hearing how other mystery writers talk about James Patterson.
One of the things that really makes it work is the trail of tension [...]
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
I’ve decided that, much as I want to, I simply can’t read exclusively research materials while I’m working on my book. I tried to do it, but that’s just not how I roll. I’m going to have to read some fiction.
So I decided to mix in some Breakout Novels: books that were such [...]
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