Naturally, after last week, what happened is that I didn’t write at all during the week and so I found myself starting this weekend not only not having started this week’s kilo-word but down 160 words from not finishing last week’s. That was jolly.
You’ll remember that I was working on becoming comfortable with the crappiness [...]
The problem with the internet is that it’s filled with people that I’d really like to talk to and learn from, and most of them would let me for a fee.
In most of those cases I totally think it’s worth the fee, I’m just all poor and stuff from being at the poverty end of [...]
So, I’ve been avoiding writing like you wouldn’t believe. I have a couple of problems.
a) having turned out a bit of prose that I’m fond of, now I feel like I can’t sit down to write unless I’m going to turn out good stuff. So if I’m just not feelin’ it, I feel like I [...]
Totally, the number one reason why this experiment is working for me is because of the feedback. So far the feedback has been good, but I mean more than that. When I’m writing in a vaccuum, I struggle with the pacing. How long has it been since I described something in rich detail? Have I [...]
Well, this week marks a pretty great milestone. This is the week I wrote a couple of paragraphs and it didn’t feel like pulling teeth.
I know I have this story to tell, and I know what the points are that I need to tell, but previous weeks’ writing has involved a terrible mashup of email-checking, [...]
So says Mark McGuinness at Lateral Action.
No, he’s absolutely right. And the reason I’m linking to him is this:
Even before he raised his hammer, Michelangelo located the phantom shape inside a specific stone out there in the world - not inside himself. He didn’t run around for years doing other stuff, telling himself his statues [...]
Dudes, installment 4 is totally sitting in my drafts list, done and such. But it needs a final look-over and I’m putting that off for Monday morning, then I will post it for Monday afternoon.
You know, I was going to be fierce with myself about posting it before going to bed Sunday night. But this [...]
You know all’s right in the world when you can count on your mom to buy your art for a quarter.
And that makes five subscribers, with Kate, Ian, Max and Tennille making up the balance. That’s a 100% conversion rate, for anyone keeping track. Hey, and I thought I couldn’t sell!
It occurred to me this [...]
My synopsis has grown and changed so much over the last ten years, but the skeleton is the same. I have a fantasy world with a gods and scorcery-created crisis and a strong heroine who joins her country’s militia, is taken as a prisoner of war and eventually saves the world. Five years ago, I [...]
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