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Coffee Smells Like Freshly Ground Heaven*

June 18, 2012 by

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A few years ago, for perfectly valid reasons and not at all because I am unreasonably curious, I surveyed about a hundred of my closest friends and family regarding their eating habits. I wanted to know whether they drank, what they were allergic to, but also what they just plain didn’t like. And it was […]

Were you GOOD when you put your knife to his throat? Were you RIGHT when you spilled his blood?

June 14, 2012 by

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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

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Neil may be right that you only need number nine. But I wonder how many authors out there only have number nine…  

I Don’t Want to Read This

June 8, 2012 by

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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 […]

That’s It. I Need To Stop Having a Life. It’s Getting in the Way of My Writing.

June 6, 2012 by

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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

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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

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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 […]

I Have Been Killing People in Prose All Day

June 1, 2012 by

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There’s only… two scenes left from the first half of TRTH that I have to write. Well, write is not quite accurate. I have to bracket them in from chunks of crap to turn them into actual scenes. A few weeks ago I wrote all the scenes that were still outstanding from the first half in […]

Slaughtering Your Word Children

May 29, 2012 by

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There’s something amazingly cathartic about a final draft. It’s horrible and brilliant at the same time. Because it’s the end. It’s your last chance. So there’s no more avoiding things. There’s no more thinking, ‘well I’ll deal with that later’. That awkward piece of prose? That hiccup in the conversation? That transition that makes you […]

Progress. This is How You Make it. With a Machete.

May 28, 2012 by

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I’ve started to make progress on the second Path book (TRTH) lately. Finally. Honestly, it’s been so close to being finished for so long that it’s a bit embarrassing it’s not done yet. The problem is that I decided to work through this draft in order. Which is really not the way I have ever […]

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