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Tag Archives: Writing
Flash fiction: Claustrophobia and Coffee
Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such, from 10/7/2009. Prompt: Write … Continue reading
Apprenticing with the Dead: Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
When I was 14 years old, I got a scholarship to an elite Catholic boarding school in Florida. My best friend Arlene (the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica) did too, and we were off to an adventure together across the … Continue reading
No Royal Road
Before I was a writer, I was (and still am) a visual artist. I could draw before I could talk; in fact, my parents were more than a little worried because that began very late, between three and four. (“And … Continue reading
The mysteries of beta reading, or mapping what isn’t there
I am currently beta-reading a number of first-draft novel manuscripts. Over the last three years of National Novel Writing Month, I have been privileged to acquire a small group of first-draft beta-reading friends. Those relationships have grown slowly, out of … Continue reading
Coming back to the beginning, or lessons from the cook pot
Sometimes you don’t know what you were setting out to do until you’ve done it. Last year, I wrote my first completed story arc for National Novel Writing Month. For the first time, I sent a work out to beta … Continue reading
Writing Goals check-in
It’s a snowy Monday night, and I’m still recovering from National Novel Writing Month. I wrote 85K words of novel draft alongside an estimated 10-15K words of blog posts (posting every day adds up fast). So we’re looking at a … Continue reading
Revolutionary endgame, or some thoughts about Happy Ending
I’ve been thinking about the whole question of the Happily Ever Ending as I’ve been thinking out the ending of my NaNo novels, The Shape-shifter’s Tale (2010) and The Reincarnations of Miss Anne (2009, unfinished). The 2010 NaNo was the first … Continue reading
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