writing a novel | writing a novel
Dec.14.2009
Hello everyone. It's been a while. Guess what? I've been busy with the Big Secret Project.
I read, over on inkygirl.com [daily diversions for writers) that Ann Aguire writes her first draft in 30 days. 30 days?!! This crazy-productive lady must be typing in her sleep! I don't know how anybody can...
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Dec.07.2009
"Once they find a favourite way of getting their words on paper - or screen - novelists normally stick with it, says Philip Hensher," in the Daily Telegraph recently, and that is true because it takes a writer some time to evolve the perfect system that works for him or her. It did with...
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Nov.01.2009
Last weekend saw me tagging along behind Ricky on a trip to the South coast. I had a couple of free days, and he had some photographs to take. Although entreated to stand around holding a flash, or to stop passers-by from walking in front of the camera, I demurred. "You want me to take two...
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Oct.13.2009
Another month, another round of unsuccessful submissions. (I'm up to two rejections and a deafening silence so far, readers). I'm playing "Writers & Artists' Yearbook Bingo". If you submit your baby to every single address in this book, and get rejected by every single publisher and...
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Aug.17.2009
Alright, so my first novel hasn't been published - yet. (I got my first rejection from a publisher today, fact fans!) But I figured, hell, why let that tiny fact dissuade me from embarking on a second?
Towards the end of my first novel, the idea for the second came uninvited into my head one day on...
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Aug.13.2009
One question that is frequently asked of a writer is, Why or how did you become a writer?
Some typical answers are: I like to read, I can tell a good story, I liked to write in college, nothing else gives me the same feeling of accomplishment and creative expression, I can't...
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Jul.05.2009
Here are some more quotations and sayings about writers and writing:
There are three rules of writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.— W. Somerset Maugham
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.— Author Unknown
History will be kind to me for I...
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Jun.14.2009
For what feels like 56 years, I have been trying to write a novel. When I first started writing, in January 2005, I somewhat naively thought it couldn't be the task of more than about 6 months. I mean, I wrote a 20,000 word undergraduate dissertation in under 2 weeks, right? How hard can writing a...
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Jun.14.2009
For what feels like 56 years, I have been trying to write a novel. When I first started writing, in January 2005, I somewhat naively thought it couldn't be the task of more than about 6 months. I mean, I wrote a 20,000 word undergraduate dissertation in under 2 weeks, right? How hard can writing a...
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Mar.08.2009
I’m not sure if I’ll ever write a novel. I’m not looking for guidance or pep talks from the Red Room. Nothing of the sort. I’m just stating a cold, hard fact on a sunless Sunday morning.
I’ve been reading about Raymond Chandler. He was one of those writers who dedicated a portion of every day to...
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