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So I started this post a couple of hours ago from the waiting room at the doctor’s office. I figured I’d give wpToGo another shot, and it progressed quite well now that I am a bit more comfortable with the virtual keyboard. (Also, yay the Better Keyboard app!) Unfortunately, although I hit Save several times, [...]
Today is the 16th, which means we’re over the hump, NaNo-wise. I’m sitting at just over 27,000 words and that places me squarely into the second half of this abomination. The story itself is nowhere near the halfway point. This is probably great news, since half of this drivel will either go away or be [...]
Eric at Pimp My Novel just posted some interesting thoughts about NaNoWriMo and a reminder of the nature of this event. As he points out, this is not about writing immediately publishable material but about “writing crap and having fun.” I was reminded of a conversation with some independent publishers at World Fantasy who mentioned [...]
NaNoWriMo is now a mere week away. I’ve decided to participate, and to use it as an excuse to practice a bit of advice gleaned from VPXIII: Write by the pound. What better opportunity to practice just that than a month-long event that values “enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft?” I’d originally planned to build [...]
The latest trend in fiction criticism (especially peer review groups and sites) appears to be diligently searching for any bit of exposition or descriptive text and vehemently condemning it as an “infodump.” For the record, Turkey City lexicon defines an infodump as a “large chunk of indigestible expository matter intended to explain the background situation.” [...]
We all need a swift kick in the posterior now and again. For me, this post did the trick today. Maggie Stiefvater’s “Giant Butt-Kicking How to Write a Novel” post serves more as motivation than a how-to, but it’s a good reminder nonetheless. I’ve been submitting chapters of my latest novel to the Online Writing [...]
Yesterday I decided to — finally — revise my short story about a sentient GPS unit. As part of the research, I loaded up the Garmin and a recorder and actually drove the route presented in the story: into SF, through the Marina to the GGB and across into Marin, finally winding up at the [...]
First off, Happy Birthday Ray Bradbury! In case you wanted to send the man a card on his 89th Earthbound anniversary, BoingBoing has posted the address and details. Second, since I’m in full Ruthless Editor mode on my own writing today, here’s a link to 21 Fatal Techniques in fiction. Most of these can be [...]
I really, really need to force myself to quit liberally using all of these annoyingly wordy, needlessly distracting and hopelessly cloying adverbs. It’s patently ridiculous.
I want to give NaNoWriMo a serious go this year and crank out a whole novel rough draft in November. In order to do that, though, I feel like I need to start preparing an outline and doing supporting research so when 11/01 hits, I can hit the ground running. Perhaps this violates the spirit [...]
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