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May.08.2013 Organic Writing Friends asked about my writing process the other night. Later one told my wife, "I didn't know Michael was so talkative." Replied the wife, "He's not. You asked him about one of his favorite subjects." That will teach them. I consider myself an organic writer. Explaining what that...	May.07.2013 The Writing Day Not a good writing day. Surreal, erotic dreams have been pestering my sleep. Makes it hard to pee in the morning. Sorry. The frustration has carried through to my fiction. Marched down to Le Beanery, acquired my favorite table, opened the ms and began. Two pages later, the...
May.04.2013 The Writing Day I'm back at the Beanery. My favorite period of time has commenced again, the writing day, where I sit, focused on the pleasure of writing and editing my fiction, drinking my coffee, watching the world and wondering what I'm going to eat. I always seem to be wondering what I'm going to eat....	May.02.2013 The Writing Day After writing revising reading editing rewriting and thinking yesterday, I concluded that this character had more of a stage than I first glimpsed. He's a larger part of the story. As his story and role gained clarity, I was chagrinned that the novel would grow a few more chapters and...
May.01.2013 The Writing Day read edit write revise think rewrite read edit write revise think rewrite read edit write revise think rewrite read edit write revise think rewrite read Looms stay busy at work in my mind, weaving the story, correcting the weaves, adding all the threads, completing a design that emerges as it's...	Apr.30.2013 The Writing Day I'm making progress on my current chapter in progress once again. It was a struggle for a time. I felt I was sabotaging myself and I think I was anxious to finish so I was indulging in some shortcuts. Not so fast, the chapter's main character said. He was relative new to the story...
Mar.27.2013 The Writing Day I've discovered more about my writing process this week. I'm very comfortable writing in first person and I also wrote will in close third person. But I've discovered that large scenes challenge me. This became apparent as I was writing a complex, confused battle scene. I...	Mar.12.2013 Storytelling Tips from a Pixar Story Artist This list of 22 tips recently made the rounds, thanks to Aerogramme Writers' Studio, and was originally compiled by former Pixar story artist Emma Coats.It's one of those lists you could keep pinned up to the cork board in your office that you look up to for reminders of where...
Jan.30.2013 The Writing Day Call me insane but I needed to write and wanted to walk, so here I am, the walking ill. The weather is fair under a white, empty sky, not too cold to be forbidding, and I wanted back into my other world, where I spy and report on what the twisted little bastard do. After fluiding up, I...	Jan.27.2013 The Writing Day Today's writing day was prosaic, an endurance race, requiring patience as I moved through yesterday's work, tweaking words and structure, and then continued writing today. It's a difficult scene, though, one difficult to wrap up with the right words. I see the scene and now it but my navigate...