I’m excited about this weekend. I’m spending it in the company of best-selling author David Farland. I’m attending one of his workshops. This one is called “Write that Novel!” which seems pretty much perfect for me. I have totally stalled on War Dogs of Mars’ progress.
This looks like a comprehensive course. I’m going in [...]
Categories: writing
Progress is slow going on the novel. That’s normal for me though. The schedule works in waves. My weekends with my daughter tend to be all about my daughter and I clear the headspace of anything unrelated to our activities together. So if there’s any progress on the novel it’s minimal. [...]
Categories: War Dogs of Mars
Tagged: Military Working Dog, process, writing
Sometimes you just have to print the thing out and type it all different.
Categories: writing
Tagged: Add new tag, Novel, process, short story, writing
OK, so I’m stealing my heading selections from Elizabeth Bear. Well, not her titles exactly, but the concept of posting sections of lyrics from songs. However, I’m picking obscure songs from obscure bands, which might make me elite or just a huge nerd. Yeah, huge nerd is what I thought as well.
I [...]
Tagged: process, short story, writing
There are quite a few writers out there who have been a real source of encouragement to me. Dean is quickly rising to the top as an obvious voice of reason. Dean is all about putting ass in chair and getting the job done, as well as putting manuscript in envelope and getting [...]
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I made excellent progress on the new story last night. This is a military science fiction. Very short. I’m aiming for 4500 words or fewer. I’m at around 2400 and just hitting the central event. This feels different for me. It’s a lot less organic than what I normally [...]
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I’ve learned a few things from some recent efforts. I should say failed efforts, because these are stories that aren’t going out the door; at least not in their current shape. I’ll pull parts of them out and reuse them, but they won’t resemble the current stories much at all. I’m OK with this.
I still [...]
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