Category: WORLD GATES
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Trying to get the dream back
I woke up this morning, having just dreamed the solution to a problem I’m having with the revision. Problem was, it was five in the morning, and I didn’t go to bed until one AM. So I lay there thinking about how I would use this solution — fixed it carefully in my mind, was…
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Late Serendipity
Had some quiet late tonight, so I’ve been logging extra time on the revisions — and it’s paying off beautifully. I managed to rework and salvage the better part of one scene that I thought earlier today I was going to have to simply delete — I got the direction for the revised scene from…
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Superman
I’ve been working with wounded heroes this morning, and scarred villains, and I happened on the song that has to be the theme song for Gods Old and Dark — Superman, by Five for Fighting. If the tag line, “It’s not easy being me,” is trite and unworthy of the song, the rest could come…
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Different faces
Today was Baanraak and Pete, with some nice twists. Last night went pretty well — wrote another complete replacement scene, and started into the modification of the scene I worked on today. I had to pull out another 3,000 words. So the book is still hovering just over 101,000 words, in spite of the fact…
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Darkness
In Gods Old and Dark more than anything I’ve written before, the story is about the price of heroism, and about who we are and how we hang onto that when we’re faced by darkness from within or without. Today I had a tough scene to write — the one in which Molly faces the…
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Yesterday was a wash
I spent the entire day on the run, and wiped out for the night at about 9:30 p.m.. Doesn’t help that I’d had about 3.5 hours of sleep the night before, of course. But today I want to get a whole lot of writing done, and I have a nice long stretch of hours in…
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Vini, vidi, kickassi
This morning went well. I had a nice long stretch of time and I really fell into the book — wrote two new scenes from scratch (about 4000 words), and managed in those two scenes to tie together the part of the book I’ve been retrofitting and dying over and the part at the end…
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Slog, slog, slog.
Slog, slog, slog. Bitch, bitch, bitch. Die, book, die. (Excerpted from Dick and Jane Grow Up and Become Whiny Writers Behind on Their Deadlines)
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A marginally better morning
I accidentally slept in until seven, but still had a better morning today — I rewrote one whole scene and more than half of the next one, working in the elements that had been missing in the first draft. I need about three uninterrupted eight-hour workdays to get into the flow of this and just…
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Mud-Wrestling the Language
It’s really starting to get me down. I got up at six this morning, struggled until ten, made scant progress. Scant. I don’t need scant right now, I need explosive, copious, mind-boggling progress, and instead, I’m neck-deep in mud and wrestling for my life. So after the little guy is asleep tonight, I’m going to…