Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been busy writing other things.
I’ve been so busy, in fact, that it’s been over a week since the event I wanted to talk about here: my first monthy Story Days.
Story Days were my idea for carrying forward the optimism and go-hung attitude I acquired at Boot Camp. [...]
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
This past weekend my sister was visiting here. I was deeply engrossed in The Hunger Games, and I remarked that one of the wonderful things about YA is that the writers have so much freedom with their premises. There is not a lot of justifying in YA, there are just wild ideas, thrilling stories, and [...]
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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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And I’m an addict. A video game addict.
Plenty of my friends, including my beloved Mark, are game programmers, so I am somewhat reluctant to say this next thing I have to say. But I feel I must tell you, interwebs: video games are a blight on the human condition.
See, here’s how I see it: we, [...]
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The new movie based on Beezus and Ramona is out this weekend. I don’t really know much about it, but I think I can predict it’ll be a big financial success. As near as I can figure, every little girl has read this book for the last fifty years. When I posted the following on [...]
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I’ve spent the past week toiling away on another project, and now I am back to working on Character Storylines for my sequel. There is a lot of work to be done here, but it is fun work, the kind of work that I most enjoy doing.
3:35 PM: Ok. I feel like I can really [...]
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I know, I know, ok? I’m a cheater. But I have something I really need to work on, and I don’t really want to talk about it.
Back tomorrow with lots of livebloging goodness!
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Well, here I am, on Step Five of the Snowflake Method.
Can I just say, I am loving it? Here’s the thing about the Snowflake Method: it breaks your novel up into discrete chunks you can deal with. Trust me when I say that you cannot hold the plot of your entire novel [...]
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Adorable, isn’t she?
This picture represents Koko Doyle, one of the four major characters in my book. She’s a half-Japanese, half-Irish kid, newly orphaned when the book starts. To say that she is out of place in 1929 Chicago would be putting it mildly. She is emotionally mature but socially awkward, stoic but very loving. And [...]
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I am still working on plans for The Big Life: The Sequel. I thought today I’d try to work few a few steps of Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method, which is a sort of well-known novel-planning guide bandied about on the interwebs. I definitely recommend clicking over and having a look, but essentially it is an [...]
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