Browsing All posts tagged under »being a writer«

Maid, Mother, Crone

July 30, 2013 by

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I want to ask your opinion on something: What freight, if any, do the words ‘girl’, ‘young woman’ and ‘woman’ have for you — in relation to both the person referred to and the person speaking? For instance, if someone (say a person in their early twenties) referred to a person whose name they didn’t […]

Delete. Remove. Expunge. Excise. Eradicate. Cut.

July 24, 2013 by

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Me: Ugh. I’ve reached a chapter that has four decisions in it. Four! Arkem: Are they yes/no decisions? Because I could help. Me: Somehow I don’t think your help would be properly informed. Arkem: That’s never stopped me before. I’m up to the point in this draft where it’s all about making the hard calls. […]

Blood For the Blood God

July 15, 2013 by

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Jeph Jacques is fun times.  

House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.*

July 2, 2013 by

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I have reached the end of the book in the current draft, which is not the same as saying I’ve finished the draft but is close. I still have to take another quick spin through to double-check the changes and then possibly proofread, because that’s always a good time. I am actually super excited about […]

I Don’t Want to Tell You What I Dream About

June 12, 2013 by

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You know how in Inception you can walk around in other people’s dreams? I love that idea to pieces. I want to get inside everybody’s heads. But I don’t want you in my mine. It’s not — well, yes, okay, it’s partly that I don’t want you to see what goes on in my head. […]

Why Introduce Logic When Madness is More Interesting?

June 6, 2013 by

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I have this expression. I don’t know exactly what it looks like, but it must be fairly obvious, because sometimes I’ll be standing there listening to someone talk and all of a sudden they’ll pull themselves up short and say, “No. Not like that. Not literally.” The thing is, I understand about context. I do. […]

How You Write a Synopsis

May 16, 2013 by

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First you spend an entire day writing (and rewriting) three hundred words. Then, just at the point where you’re going crazy and starting to see things in the text that aren’t there you ask someone else to read it. Hopefully they will say something nice like, I’d read that. Hopefully they won’t say things like, […]

Oh Hey There Teddy. What Would You Like To Do Today?

May 13, 2013 by

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These Are the Things a Second Draft is Made of…

May 7, 2013 by

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Sometimes the second draft is where I go back in and make the intention of it clear from the mess of words I threw at the page the first time. Sometimes I write things and I have no idea what I’m doing and the second draft is me finding something in the text I had […]

The First Step is Admitting it?

May 6, 2013 by

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