Writing
November 20, 2009
- School was only a half day. The sub job I had was a piece of cake. Got to do some notes for chapters. This afternoon I will get to write. Yesterday, I wrote @1200 words. What a good day!!! Still dark and gray, but at least no rain. Another storm is on the agenda for tomorrow...more wind and rain. At least, it's not snow and I don't have to shovel!!!
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November 20, 2009
- I don’t know about most of you, but today’s announcement by Oprah Winfrey to end her syndicated television show left me empty, morose and wanting to crawl back into bed, never to surface again. This reaction, however, is not due to the impending absence of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in my life, although I have been a viewer on and off for most of her years on TV. No, it goes far deeper than ...
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November 20, 2009
- To say that I am enduring what feels like an unyielding dry spell would be something of an understatement. The worst part of it is that I don't know what to do about it. I know that the best thing any of us can do is simply continue to work and work through whatever the emotional issues are that keep us from writing, but it really isn't that easy.I kind of liken what is happening to me in the ...
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November 20, 2009
- What exactly is bad sex writing? Is it having bad sex while writing? Or is it bad to write about sex…cluck, cluck? Of course, all of you know about the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Many really good writers have ‘won’ it. No one has ever thought about giving a good sex in fiction award, it must therefore follow that it’s all just bad. The worse and the worst do not count. ...
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November 19, 2009
- Hi, I'm new to this space. As an individual who worked for 12 long years in high pressured, unsatisfying office environments, and now pilots a lonely yet often fulfilling ship from my home office, I thought I would use this blog space to begin running through some aspects of the life of a freelancer. Or my experiences of it, in any event.Some of you may find bits of the material amusing and/or ...
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November 19, 2009
- No sub job today so I get to be home and write all day...yippee. We've been having storm after storm here in the Pacific Northwest. It's a dark, gray, stormy day...perfect for writing about vampires. I am working on "Reveka's Revenge," book 2 of The Crimson Pursuit series available at SynergEbooks.com
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November 18, 2009
- I'm an artist by trade and the urge to write came quite by surprise. I've dabbled in it a bit before but nothing as monumental as writing a mystery novel. Writing, I found, and very much to my surprise, was just painting with words. With a brush I can gently stroke indigo blue or vermilion onto a canvas to shadow a face in remorse. The same can be said of the words I brush across a page ...
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November 18, 2009
- Thousands of years ago, when our ancestors sat around their campfires at night, they didn't ask for better marketing techniques or more sophisticated technology or world domination. They asked for stories. And now, after decades of assuming the human species learned to dominate this planet through our superior ability to hunt and terrorize, anthropologists today theorize that, in ...
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November 18, 2009
- As sure as death, writers have those bloodied moments – frenzied passings of time made up of the abandonment of passion and craft for fear and self-consciousness. But there is Good, and some of us have seen the Good. People are willing to connect, to truly read and listen and think about the words we’re saying at once so eagerly and timidly. The words are Gods and Devils: they elevate us and ...
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November 18, 2009
- I had introduced a character and written about him for a week without giving him a first name. Or, more accurately - finding out his name. But the time came when the other character, who arrived with first name no problem at all, wanted to know the man's first name. A reasonable question for the woman and, golly gee, I bet the readers would be relieved, also.But.His name would not come. Last ...
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