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Read More ...A Fresh Set of Problems
Since I’m now essentially working on two episodes at once, I’ve decided to compartmentalize my near-term the work into three buckets. Prior to this morning, I had bucket 1) Fix up short story to make it, you know, like, a full short story (with a point of being all by itself), and I had bucket […]
Read More ...Q1 Step Resolution Update
As you might remember, I made three New Years’ resolutions. One of them was to average taking at least 20,000 steps a day. I just finished adding up my steps for the month of March (not counting a few more this evening…but close enough, eh?). Here are my results over the first quarter of the […]
Read More ...Splitting Stories and a Note From Philip K. Dick
I’ve spent the last couple mornings working to restructure episodes 6 and 7 into a short story and a short novella (perhaps even dropping it into novelette territory–though we will see). It was a bit difficult to concentrate to concentrate this morning, though. First, I woke up considerably later this morning than normal (the cat […]
Read More ...Letters of Note
I followed a link on Tobias Buckell’s site, and it led me to a wonderful time sink in the form of this library of letters. I literally spent three or four hours tooling around and reading interesting bit after interesting bit. Completely fascinating. If you go there, I suggest scanning the archive to discover those […]
Read More ...Confidence and Assurance
I grabbed this list of Joss Whedon’s writing tips from another place–someone’s twitter or Facebook page–a day or three ago, and thought it was great (of course). Then I followed the link at its bottom to these tips from Neil Gaiman, which are equally full of tremendous, but even more so. The reason I say […]
Read More ...Wherein I Make Stuff Up. Kinda. Maybe.
The lull between basketball games is a good thing, I think. # Turning to episode six has been an interesting adventure. The overall story arc of the world is currently lying in several threads, the “main” arc is really three chords twining together, but the third one of these is really a bit of a […]
Read More ...Writing Short Stories — Novel Prep, or Not?
It was a big basketball weekend, of course. My Cardinals of Louisville are riding high, and seem to be a reasonable favorite to win it all. Lots of good teams out there, though, far too much competition left to get particularly cocky. # Myke Cole, a writing acquaintance of mine who I recently met in […]
Read More ...A Pair of 90 Minute Blasts
Excellent morning at the keyboard, though it started too late. I was a slacker and didn’t rise until just past 8:00 AM today, which is surprising since usually the cat will wake me well before then. Stranger and stranger, this feline thing we live with. Anyway, I’ve made it through Lords of Existence. Kind of. […]
Read More ...A Weekend Proposal
Holy cripes there’s a lot to do this weekend. If the world were just we would get two day work weeks and five day weekends. But the world, alas, is not just. That’s what I retain from my college course in logic, anyway. [grin] It’s been a good morning, though. I managed to zip through […]
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