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Aug.14.2012
My friend Martha Allard tagged me to play a game called "Look." You find the word "look" in your current work-in-progress and copy the it and the surrounding paragaphs into your blog.
Here's mine. The story's called "Something in the Water." Nothing magical happens yet, but just...
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Oct.07.2011
For months now, I've been working on my current WIP (Work in Progress): Dark Horizons, the third novel in my Expired Reality series. My original intention was to release the first three books in the series in a row, one a month, this last summer. The first, Endangered Memories, has been...
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Aug.05.2011
I have frequent author slip-a-ways. You all know what I mean. It happens when you've got at least one toe in the real world, then your author's mind slips into your wip (maybe I should call it author slip-wip?). For me, it's fine to have an episode at dinner or lunch or watching TV. My partner...
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Jun.26.2011
I have a new work in progress, the first draft of which is taking shape here. I call it The Unlucky Thirteen. Its genesis is an incident that occurs in my first novel, Banana Republican Blues, previously known as Moonbeam Highway, and totally ignored before that as Gopher Anus Chili. It concerns...
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May.22.2011
I finished a pivotal chapter, in which my main antagonist arrives in the area. Kept it short, too--just 2 double-spaced pages. This WIP is movin' along.
I thought I'd write quickly on images music evokes for me before I've created something for them to go with. In fact, the creation...
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Feb.28.2011
Photo: Crypt, in West Greenwich Cemetery #2, where bodies were placed until the ground thawed.
Please go to my Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsrvr/sets/) to see 75 photos (many of them creepy) I took to go look at for locals, descriptions, and just the overall feel for some scenes...
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Apr.11.2010
Yesterday when I was out walking, I finally got a sense of where my WIP needed to go. I wasn't thinking about the story, but apparently it was thinking about me, and after all this time, there it was, the next big step. Grief.
I always knew my hero was grieving the loss of the civilized world and...
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Apr.02.2010
It has been so long since I had any revelations about being a writer. I think it's the trees blocking out the forest conundrum. I don't ever get out of the insular writer bubble to see how quirky I really am.
But...
While I was in Virginia, I did manage to escape for a little bit. Ironically...
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Jan.08.2010
I'm beginning to understand why authors lament about deadlines. They can be nerve-wrecking, especially for a first time author.
Although I don't have a publisher (I'm self-publishing my first novel), I chose to treat the whole process of publishing my book as a serious deal. I set deadlines for...
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Sep.23.2009
No prizes for guessing I'm listening to Bon Jovi. But despite that - I find the "So why aren't you dead?" question comes up a lot. Especially when I'm writing. People need to learn to annoy me less. :)
I've actually had a mostly music free day. (You cannot count Hi 5 as music, you just...
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