Meditations on the writing process, writing tools, ruminations, and occasional postings of my own work.
Earlier this week, Jeremiah Tolbert (@jeremiahtolbert) started a Tumblr called “Write Me a Story About This” wherein he posts images that should provide good seeds for interesting little short stories. I’ve decided to play along; I want to do a flash fiction piece for each image that he posts, and hope that I don’t have […]
…or: The most amazing and energizing fun thing that I’ll (probably) never do again. First and foremost: my hat is off to the NaNoWriMo organizers–Chris Baty and Lindsey Grant and everyone else involved (too numerous to mention)–and to all the authors who took time to write encouraging essays and pep talk videos. And more so, […]
Short version: In my fourth NaNoWriMo effort 1, I have “won” again. Turning in 63,311 words. And I’ve probably got at least that many to go to finish the draft of this novel. That is to say, it’s only about halfway done. There’s a “long version” of this post that I’m thinking of making–some reflections […]
Just literally put two novels in the attic. And two more into the trash. I’ve been talking with a friend of mine about the recent William Gibson interview in The Paris Review. Somehow that inspired us to discuss all the bad advice that’s out there for writers. All the methods and attitudes that contradict each […]
“Creation requires influence.â€
Lessons From the Slushpile: Good vs. Great: At Inkpunks:
As writers we get so accustomed to identifying what’s wrong with things. We read and we pick out the things we don’t like about a story, what we think the author did wrong. Maybe it’s time…
stop remixing and make something new: The rhetoric about the legitimacy of “remixing as art†aside, we really do need to take a moment and admit that re-packaging something creatively (while fun and exciting and creative in its own right) is not ad…
Hello, Winter.
Turning it in at 52,703 of 50,000 (105.41%).  Got… 70% of the way to a novel?  With a bunch of extraneous stuff there in the middle, most likely.  Unnecessary verbosity.  But it still feels good to hit >50,000 words in a month.
And yes, I “fini…
+1,767 = 52,146 of 50,000 (104.29%)
Skipped Thanksgiving; did a little today and tonight, trying to wrap up and round out the scene I’d been working on.  Even more convinced now that there’s a lot more than a month’s worth of writing to get me t…