Month: November 2004
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Good Progress; Time to Quit
Made huge progress on the HAWKSPAR line-for-scene; it turned out to be an almost total rethink of the book and the roles played by the two main characters. Also got a fair amount of that rethinking down on paper. Time to wrap it up, though; yesterday’s migraine never completely went away, and now it’s edging…
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White Screen of Despair (Weblog)
Another author weblog recommendation: White Screen of Despair: A Science Fiction Writer’s Blog, by Gary Gibson, who’s making some inroads on the field. His process and progress make for interesting reading. Download as PDFPrint Page
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YES! Forward with HAWKSPAR
The line-per-scene is going wonderfully, and I’ve discovered a theme for the book that is going to take over for the main theme I’d originally intended. I’m excited; I think this has the potential to be a beautiful story. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Line-Per-Scene
Lost most of yesterday to the migraine. Today I’m doing more line-per-scene work on HAWKSPAR, pending working out some last bits on LGD before I can dig into the rewrite. Still have some residual flares from the headache, so the office is dark and the screen is at half-light. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Migraine, Edits
Got Claire’s questions, migraine started. Working anyway. So much for HAWKSPAR, opening up LGD and getting into the actual re-rewrite of that for the rest of the morning or until the pain gets to bad to work. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Very Good Writer’s Journal
Caitlan R. Kiernan’s Low Red Moon. Her writing about writing is well worth reading. I’ve added her to the Writers’ Blogs List. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Brain Stirred by Stick
I’ve discovered a few of things about myself that I didn’t know before. One, I am not a machine, and as much as I would like to treat myself like one, bad things happen when I try. It USED to work for me. I could, if pushed, write fifty-four typed, formatted, 300-words-to-a-page pages in one…
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Taking a Day Off
Giving writing a rest on Sunday. The whole two-books-at-once hoop-jumping thing isn’t working out too well for me; I’m taking a day off to let off some steam. Back Monday. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Work for Hire — Up-side and Down-side
A lot of writers do work-for-hire writing at some point in their careers. It can be an okay thing, a bad thing, or a complete career-wrecker, depending upon the deal you get. A semi-related thread in the Forward Motion Writers’ Community spurred me to think about this: I commented that a submission agreement included in…
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Crud, Crud, Crud
Cleared out the line-per-scene outline at the end of the manuscript. Usually I leave it in and just delete portions as I write my way through the book. This time I’m working a little differently, and that outline kept getting in the way. So I’m back down to the 5K mark. This time, all those…