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Let Me Lead You Into Darkness
So someone asked me yesterday why I didn’t just find a way to take out the inconvenient minion without killing him. It’s interesting, because there are a number of places where I’ve done exactly that. And I thought about doing it here too. After all, in the original draft of this section no one died […]
Were you GOOD when you put your knife to his throat? Were you RIGHT when you spilled his blood?
June 14, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I killed someone. I feel kind of badly about it. Actually, I killed them on Friday. But I only started to feel really guilty about it today. Well, maybe ‘conflicted’ is a better word. I keep telling myself he wasn’t very nice, but it doesn’t help. Because when I had my characters kill him they didn’t […]
Or Maybe Just Number Nine
June 13, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Neil may be right that you only need number nine. But I wonder how many authors out there only have number nine…
Ducklings. News at Eleven.
June 12, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Paul S: Okay, so why is a duck? Me: That’s one that’s puzzled the sages throughout the ages. Paul S: My current theory is: what else would it be? Once upon a time I used to watch the end of the news every day because it was on before M*A*S*H. I didn’t pay any attention, […]
I Don’t Want to Read This
June 8, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I have a problem. (Yeah, yeah, admitting it is the first step to recovery.) My problem is this: I hate not finishing things. I’m pretty sure I developed this trait when I was a teenager. I was sick for a while so for a couple of years there I didn’t finish anything. And when I […]
Delta Hey Max Nine
June 7, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
A few days ago — call it last Thursday — while I was running I sort of accidentally listened to half of “Apollo 9” by Adam and the Ants. Since then I have been unable to get it out of my head. (Fi— Fi— Fi— Fi— Five. ) There is no reason for this. It’s […]
That’s It. I Need To Stop Having a Life. It’s Getting in the Way of My Writing.
June 6, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I made words! I made so many words! I am awesome. Those scenes? You know, the last ones for TRTH that I hadn’t finished? There are now five of them. No, wait, this is a good thing. Because they’re almost finished! All I need to do is frame them and drop them in the narrative. […]
The Reading-With-A-Hacksaw Draft
June 5, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I wrote two and a half chapters on Thursday!* Well, edited two and half chapters technically. I’m never quite sure how much damage I have to do to a scene before I can say I was really writing not editing… And to be fair, I had done a lot of the heavy lifting already. This […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Writing
June 4, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence […]
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June 15, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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