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A Good Opening Scene is Worth a Cocktail in the Face

April 16, 2012 by

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So I’m about thirty thousand words into Wizards and I finally got to the scene fragment that started the whole thing. Finally.* I’m really glad now that I didn’t decide to start the book there. I don’t think the scene would have had the same resonance without the context you get from the what comes […]

Staring into Space is a Valid Approach to Problem Solving. Usually.

April 11, 2012 by

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Rick: Having fun? Me: Er. Define ‘fun’. Writing is fun, yes? And banging my head against the wall seems to be an integral part of writing. Q.E.D. It’s not that the ceiling of my living room is fascinating. It’s not. It isn’t even among the top five most interesting ceilings I’ve had. There are no […]

Even in Fiction Climaxing Early is Not Cool

April 10, 2012 by

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I have concern. I’m afraid the climax of Wizards is going to come too soon. I’m afraid the first act, those first four hours, will be too short to be a book but if I add their second adventure it will be too long. And I have to account for the fact that it will […]

First Person, Third Person, Or What in the World Am I Doing?

April 5, 2012 by

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So yesterday, because my brain was stupid and apparently didn’t want me to write the argument that I was supposed to be writing, I rewrote the first chapter of Wizards into the third person. Just to see what it would look like. The answer is, the first half looks pretty good. Not so sure about the […]

Nothing to See Here. Moving Right Along.

April 4, 2012 by

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I am having a problem with sucking. Much sucking today. And yesterday. Yesterday was awful. I wrote some things but I’m pretty sure they were dreadful. I don’t really want to look at them, I’m afraid I’ll be ashamed of myself. Editing never works when I’m in this mood because everything I’ve ever written seems […]

My Neurosis: Let Me Show You It

April 3, 2012 by

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People seem to like Wizards better than Path. What’s with that? I’m trying to decide whether I should be offended on behalf of my first-born, or excited that my skills are improving. Is it just that it’s new and shiny? That there are more explosions?* Maybe I should just write it off as the people […]

If I Don’t Write to Empty My Mind I Go Mad — Lord Byron

March 16, 2012 by

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Rick: What are you doing? Me: I’m insulting myself in text. Silence. Me: You’re just not going to touch that one, are you? Rick: You’re writing your blog for tomorrow? Me: …yes? Rick: It all makes sense. I have been in the middle of an explosion for like a week now. It’s making me edgy. […]

Alice in Space

March 2, 2012 by

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Wizards is written in the first person. Mostly to make it easier for me to lie to you. This is probably a terrible reason. And, yeah, it’s also because I realised when I started writing for Wizards that the story choices I make are different if I’m writing in third person than they are if I’m […]

Life Isn’t a Card Game, it’s Fucking Russian Roulette

February 24, 2012 by

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I have this worrying feeling that my characters are psychotic. At least, I keep threatening to kill them and they seem to like it. What’s with that? Honestly, it’s like the more dangerous it is, the better they feel about the situation. Like they find it easier to accept someone threatening to kill them than […]

This is an Unreasonable Extrapolation Given the Evidence

February 23, 2012 by

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Raven: How goes? Me: I am writing extremely clever words. Well, funny words. Well, they’re making me laugh. Although I haven’t slept a lot lately, so. Yeah. Turns out if you write things in your sleep and then forget about them you get the opportunity to read your own work as if someone else has […]

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