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Category Archives: Writing
NaNoFeed: Live from the 28-hour writing tour
This year is different. This year is really different. I’m obsessing over three or four things at once (some of which will be unveiled in December), including visual character designs for Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues. I’ll be revising that … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: the next project
The next project–yes, I’m thinking about the next project, even as I am pausing on the current one–is a space opera. It doesn’t have a name yet, but there’s quite a bit of it written already. I last touched it … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: from the thickets of research to the sky of speculation
Warning: ramblies, lots of them. I have to keep repeating to myself: This project is a sketch at best. After three hours of research for every hour of writing (at a minimum), I have piles of stuff to read though. … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 11 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
Cleopatra leaped to her feet and paced. Timaeus–was Timaeus in the burning Library? and then foolishly, but what about the last scroll of the treatise on automata? She wouldn’t know how it turned out. And that she most passionately wanted … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: a different kind of Trip (and an excerpt)
This year’s NaNo novel is a challenge, with a lot of reading left undone at the time I began. Increasingly, I’m realizing that this one is less a draft novel than a first sketch. Every novel is a Trip, in … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: out sick, or more blows struck against perfectionism
As if it weren’t enough of a blow to be proceeding at merely average pace, I spent yesterday out sick from the day job. I slept, because whatever this thing is, it sucks energy like a vampire. Today I got back … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: bite-sized pieces, or how to eat an elephant
I make a custom of date-stamping all of my draft writing with the start time and end time. In the wake of NaNo last year, I transferred those dates to a spreadsheet and to my Google calendar. What I learned … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: not an A-plus student
(Dateline: Sunday 4 November; posted now, to avoid colliding with Six Sentence Sunday.) So now, at a write-in, I’m banging out prose, after consulting sources. Every NaNo novel is different, and I’m realizing that this one is being written very … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
The censorious didn’t care for the rites of the god of wine, but he was the protector of the whole dynasty: the god of frenzy and change, the deity of chance. No army moved without proper rations of wine and … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: The ship is launched!
Woke up later than I’d originally planned, so now at least I’ve put off a bit the bug that’s going around. It’s mid-afternoon and I’ve scored 1941 words according to Scrivener’s word-count. I’ve posted an excerpt here and I’m already … Continue reading
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