So I mentioned I’ve been wandering Chuck Wendig’s blog. Today I stumbled on this post:Â Six Questions to Ask as You Write. (Still not for the faint of heart–but damn, he cracks me up!) If you don’t care to go over there, here are the six things to ask yourself about a scene, in a […]
Not a new chapter, alas. Just an old one finally put up. May I present the latest chapter of Shades and Hues, It’s a Small World? (beware of earworms!) Also, in the interests of accountability, I’m going to start (again) announcing my accomplishments here. So if I don’t post for a few days, feel free
Sometimes you just have to trash it all and write through someone else’s eyes. Sometimes you have a lovely bit of still-life, some couple thousand very pretty words, but your story hasn’t started yet. Or you’ve got a great scene, full of conflict and emotion, that doesn’t belong in the story you’re writing. I like
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So this morning I got up early, as I’ve been trying to form that habit, and I wrote my morning pages that I hadn’t done in perhaps a month. (well, I tried yesterday but only got half a page done before I had to leave.) Anyway. In my ramblings this morning, I plotted out the
What do you do when it’s just not working? When every word is like pulling healthy teeth out of an angry dog? Well, if you can’t find what’s wrong, and suspect maybe nothing is–you keep pulling teeth. Eventually they come easier. Right? Maybe. 1,659 words today.
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I can’t deliberately write to a theme, but I’m pretty good at picking one out later. I do it every time I do Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Revision, and I can’t imagine revising without it now.
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“… it’s so hard for me always–to really become totally absorbed in what I’m writing. When I read a big bloc I get this feeling, get the hang of it again, and realize all that I want to do yet–the immensities of the vistas stagger me. And at the same time I realize that one