Writing Process | Writing Process
Jan.15.2013
I find myself going through old words today, searching for myself in the mouldy cabinet where stacks of wire edged binders disintegrate with time. The pile of scrunched up paper gathers on the floor into a pryramid of discarded thoughts that have grown meaningless over the years. Sentences that...
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Jan.12.2013
There is the welcome clatter of glass jars. The jars I gather from the pantry, the ones I saved up since my blackberry picking in September, the ones that have lain empty for months waiting to be filled with something seasonal and new. I put them into the oven to sterilise away, to banish the...
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Jan.11.2013
A few weeks ago my wife sent me a link to an event at which fellow Red Roomer Khaled Hosseini would be speaking.
Now, as I've mentioned before (Time to Write), I found his story about writing at 4am a way to fit writing into my schedule, as well. It's a habit I generally follow rain or, well,...
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Jan.08.2013
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Memory, eidetic memory, and fiction
Memory. What is it? Words or is it...
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Jan.02.2013
I'm suffering withdrawal. My friend and I parted ways. The story that I worked on is done. Reasons for visiting Randy and his world and predicaments have ended.
Part of me wants to mourn a day for my finished story. The other half wants to tinker with the finished...
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Dec.06.2012
For the writing day, I leave - go somewhere else. I leave one life. I go to the writing life.
(At this point, my mind screams, "Don't go toward the light - wrong life!")
Walking to go from one life to the other is best. I stop thinking about where I was and what I was doing...
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Nov.28.2012
Having started two short stories with little thought - no, let's make that little planning - I reflected on my process as I drifted into sleep last night. I wonder how it compares to others.
I don't plan stories or even novels. It's like playing cards with myself: you have any...
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May.14.2012
In all that you do as a writer, be creative.
Be open to new ideas. Be intuitive with your process. Play with words and definitions. Build a plethora of experience. Put your best foot forward. never let up and never give up. Always try to do your best.
Most of all...
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Apr.20.2012
The Edge of Maybe, the phenomenal new novel by Ericka Lutz, is about the earthquakes in a happy life when a past indiscretion comes calling. I loved the book, and I always follow Ericka's Solo column at Literary Mama, so I am now thrilled to host Ericka on my blog!
Ericka...
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Apr.18.2012
Today I led the third day of my short fiction workshop at The Banff Centre. The Banff Centre, for those of you who don’t know it, is an exquisite artists’ retreat built in the middle of the mountains in Alberta, Canada.
There are several writing workshops happening here right now, but there...
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