Month: November 2013
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Hit 40,000 words on World Clinic yesterday, hit the migraine wall today
I’m sitting up for the first time all day. Managed to answer the HELP DESK. That’s it. I’ve been working through the damnable migraine for the last three weeks, but yesterday around 2:45, it turned worse, and I’ve been doing the dark-room-eyes-closed thing since then. I’m up briefly—Tylenol plus buffered aspirin has taken the edge…
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Passed 35,000 Words on Create A World Clinic #writer #worldbuilding
The R&R last weekend, plus the chance to rethink my approach to the final chapters of Create A World Clinic, have helped me tremendously with the progress of the course. I’d gotten bogged down in minutia, and stepping back and asking myself not HOW I world build, but WHY I world build, got me back on…
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Do you have any questions for me about creating worlds? #worldbuilding
Long-distance runners (and a whole bunch of of other folks who do long-term intensive things) talk about hitting the wall. I’ve done it with novels. Yesterday, I hit the “build a better website and get everyone and all their stuff into class” wall. Big wall. Very hard. I spent most of the day horizontal with…