Month: August 2009
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DTD — 473, and Just Can’t Be
Tired and have a headache, but did get the words. Mostly, I was wrapping up the scene in which my hero discovered that the rash of suicides are all connected to someone he knew well—and hated—in his past. But I also got back to Aleksa, who is on her way to a dig being run…
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Write A Book With Me Saturday
Knitting. I’m knitting. Swatching, mostly, and designing the next sweater I want to make… But letting the mind play with story ideas, too. We did family birthday stuff today, too, which was cool. Meanwhile, how are your words coming? Download as PDFPrint Page
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The Friday Night Words
While I am bashing my way through Sacred 2, you are writing. I can say that the bashing is going pretty well. How’s the writing going? Download as PDFPrint Page
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Motivation, Third Video, Now available
The third of four videos for THE WRITING CRAFT: How To Motivate Yourself is now available in the student area for all Think Sideways students who have reached Lesson 5 or later, and for all Think Sideways Grads. Handouts and other things that will be included will have to wait until next week, along with…
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DTD — 437 words, and the spread of nightmare
My hero, stuck in his police station with a map and push-pins (he likes low-tech), is finding evidence that the monsters he hunts have been active in his area far longer than he suspected. He has no idea yet where they are … that’ll have to wait until my MC brings them down on her…
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DTD — 651 words, and Phoenix Fires
A second bizarre mass suicide leaves Manhattan’s denizens uneasy, and my hero connects the seemingly unrelated deaths to a case he was already working on. It went well, and I sort of lost track of words in the fun of writing this. If you’re playing WABWM at Level Two, your magic number for the night…
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DTD — 429 words, and a surprising hint of romance
Strictly a character night tonight—the scene’s POV character has a thing for my MC…something I sort of knew. Developed last night’s albatross analogy a bit further, dug into their relationship and how he hopes her visit to his dig will go. Not the sort of night that sets the world on fire, but it was…
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DTD — 504, and the albatross
We discover—me along with everyone else—that Aleksa’s favorite graduate student not only is in love with her, actually proposed to her … and got shot down because he was fifteen years younger than her. Exploring the theme of aging and mortality and the barriers both create. I like the part of the scene I got…
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DTD — 514, and the critical question of the nature of immortality
The writing tonight went well. In fact, all the new front-end material has gone well. It’s much cleaner, sharper, more focused than the material I was getting earlier (the stuff that has been moved toward the middle of the novel.) Which of course is good. Over the weekend, though, I addressed something that has been…
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Saturday Night (not) At The Movies…
So. You’re writing. You got words. Or didn’t. What’s the story on your story? Download as PDFPrint Page