I should post a snippet of the new material from the revision
Thursday, May 30th, 2002I’ll look through stuff tonight and put something up tomorrow afternoon.
Archive for May, 2002
Time to grouse
Thursday, May 30th, 2002I’ve never written so much new material for a revision before in my life as I’m doing for The Wreck of Heaven. I’ve already done six new-from-scratch scenes that add an extra sixty pages to the manuscript. I’ve cut and rewritten and completely rethought two existing storylines, including the major one. I […]
The things we were not born to do
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002I asked a question on the Discussion board, (it’s the current survey question), that goes “At what age did you discover you were a writer? The discussion part of the survey adds, “And what were the circumstances?” Those aren’t the exact words, but I’m composing this offline, so close is going to […]
Good progress
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002I only have about 3/4″ of manuscript (measuring the stack) left to edit on The Wreck of Heaven. I’m going to have an amazing amount of typing to do when I get the edits done, but I still think I’ll be able to get the clean manuscript and disk done this week. […]
Good days happen
Tuesday, May 28th, 2002Good days happenWithout warning, after bad days, in spite of too much sun or rain Laughter bursts out of dark corners and explodes whole roomsClearing cobwebs with astonishing speedDread wearies of itself, and falls exhausted to the floor, Overcome by its own mutterings, melodramatic in its flung poseGood news sneaks in over the transom, under […]
Unsticking a stuck story
Sunday, May 26th, 2002Had to quit last night when I was too tired to think my way out of an unnecessary stupidity Molly committed in the first version of the book. Today, I sat down, did four lines of a timed writing, including a couple of sentence fragments, and the idea for the fix slammed me between […]
Back in Baanraak’s head today
Friday, May 24th, 2002Every time I go through the material with him, I get a charge out of him as a character — and out of where he’s going. I need to move through about a hundred pages of revisions today, but the Baanraak stuff is holding up really well. Not sure how the rest of […]
Breakthrough
Thursday, May 23rd, 2002I’ve been having a hell of a time getting to the new pivot scene. I was scared to write it.Yesterday, I took a deep breath and dove in, and the scene happened for me. There were points where I was crying so hard I had to quit typing because I couldn’t read the […]
I must cheer
Tuesday, May 21st, 2002The season ender for Buffy, The Vampire Slayer just so kicked ass!
(We now return you to your regularly scheduled weblog.)
Solid progress
Tuesday, May 21st, 2002Hit the pivotal point in the revisions yesterday — the point where the old material has to tie in and prep for that great idea Matt had. Had to rip out whole-cloth two whole scenes and a chunk of a third. And then wrote 2442 words of new material that made a pretty […]
