Browsing All posts tagged under »being a writer«

Wild Coincidence or Dastardly Plot?

December 3, 2012 by

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While writing Wizards I keep looking back at Path trying to find similarities, differences, to see where my writing has improved or just changed. Some of those are very clear, and then other things I see and haven’t the faintest idea what it means. Like — my opening paragraphs are getting shorter. The first paragraph […]

And Then She Threw Her Drink in My Face

November 30, 2012 by

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Every now and then I remember that you really shouldn’t start a book with the words ‘And then’. But I did. And I wonder if this is one of those ‘know the rules so you can break them’ kind of things or if I’m just being pigheaded because I believe that all stories begin in […]

Why You Shouldn’t Ask What a Writer is Thinking About

November 27, 2012 by

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Not that you can’t of course. They may tell you delightedly. It’s just that some people find it disturbing when a person looks up and tells you distractedly that they’re wondering how much pressure you have to put on a circular saw to make it through a thigh bone.  

This is Meaningless

November 26, 2012 by

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You know how if you say a word often enough it ceases to have any meaning and becomes just a weird collection of syllables that you start to wonder who put in that order? Okay. Have you ever noticed how titles do the same thing? It’s like they only mean something the first time you […]

My Past Self is a Sadistic Reprobate

November 20, 2012 by

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Paul S: I’ve made four attempts to build this next hinge. Me: How’s it going? Paul S: …I’ve made four attempts to build this next hinge. I wrote a bunch of stuff while I was sick and now I’m not sure what to do with it. Some of it’s kind of at a higher emotional […]

Warning: Artist

November 19, 2012 by

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Sometimes You Just Have to Cackle Evilly and Say, “My Bear Will Defeat You All!”

November 15, 2012 by

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I don’t know about you but I certainly wouldn’t laugh at someone who made a robot teddy bear. I’d be sidling up to them saying, “Hey, wanna be my friend?”  

A Certain Predilection For Getting Dragons Drunk

November 9, 2012 by

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Okay, so recently I’ve noticed that there are certain… similarities between the two series’ I’m writing. Not in story or character but some of the underlying ideas are the same. Fundamentally, this is not surprising. An author’s obsessions tend find their way onto the page somehow. And my doctorate — if it achieved nothing else […]

Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation

November 8, 2012 by

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1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave. 3. A question mark walks into a bar? 4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar. 5. A gerund and an infinitive […]

Should You Be Writing Right Now?

November 7, 2012 by

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This is a terrible, terrible flowchart because it opens with four questions instead of one. And then, whichever direction you go you end up in the same place. Which… okay, fine. That’s true. The answer to, Should you be writing right now? is always going to be, Yes.  

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