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Nov.18.2009 Breakthrough: Writing Past the Doubt Ever work on a story and know in your gut it's not working. Of course, everybody feels that way sometime, but what if the feeling won't go away? The same happened to me, and will happen again, with the novel I'm writing. Weeks passed, and I couldn't shake the sense that the story wasn't working. It...	Nov.06.2008 The many modes of writing. First: a duality Haiku I and me agree, there can be no difference, between I and me. That came to me yesterday while I was writing Verilog (its a hardware language DGMS). That Haiku is true on many levels and the more I study it, the more depth it takes on. Sometimes I think it would be truly fun...
Aug.05.2008 Writing While Driving Years ago, while working on my fourth book, Keeper of the Light, I hired writing consultant Peter Porosky to help me brainstorm the plot and structure. I lived in Virginia at the time, and Peter lived nearly an hour's drive away from me in Maryland. He'd read my initial outline and we got right...	Jun.21.2008 Phototropic Writing "The truth of my writing – the spiritual truth for which I write – is all that darkness, so clear in its depth that there is, like God in eternity, no seeing to the end of it. David Plante I had never dreamed of writing a novel. I wanted to write stories. I began by writing short pieces....
Jun.07.2008 Plotting I'm looking out my office window, trying to write, but mostly watching a low-slung fox hunt a squirrel. The fox makes me think of a coat I once had, its plush, silky collar. That, in turn, reminds me of my mother on her last visit, sitting in my Chinese chair, swaddled in her old mink stole. I'm...	Apr.27.2008 Plot Development I am often stymied by creating a beginning, middle and end of a plot line. I have many detailed descriptions of characters, places and events, but have difficulty making the actual story come alive. Any one have clues on how to get that process to gel?