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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 […]

The For-God’s-Sake-Put-the-Book-Down-and-Walk-Away Approach to Editing

March 29, 2012 by

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I just found a plot hole in the second book of Path. It’s tiny really, but I’m still sitting here thinking, How did no one notice that? How did I not notice that? I have to rewrite all of, oh, two paragraphs, so it’s not a problem at all. Except for the way it makes […]

Hunger Games = Bows and Arrows and Bread and Death

March 23, 2012 by

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In case any of you were wondering about this ‘Hunger Games’ thing you keep hearing about, here is a summary to save you having to read the book. (Although you should read the book too, it’s not bad. Apart from the bit at the <redacted>. You know?) Extremely sensible summary. Here is an excerpt to get […]

This Juice is Deeply Conflicted and Will Leave You Feeling Vaguely Unsettled

March 12, 2012 by

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THAT’S LIKE GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET AND SEEING YOUR FAVORITE AISLE OF JUICE, THEN ON ONE OF THE BOTTLES THE PRICE TAG SAYS “THIS IS THE WORST JUICE IN THE WORLD, IT HAS NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND IT’S A WHORE.”   So I saw this, and skipping right over what I thought of its original […]

25 Reasons That Writers Are Bug Fuck Nuts

February 29, 2012 by

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THIS IS ALL TRUE. Except maybe the part about caffeine. I don’t ingest a lot of caffeine. Largely because it doesn’t seem to work on me. I long for the kind of pep-inducing can’t-sleep manic energy I have seen it induce in others. But in my case, no luck. So. That bit of this article is totally […]

Not Writing a Love Story

February 20, 2012 by

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I feel like I’m accidentally writing a love story. I’m writing the story of these two guys meeting. And it’s going to be the beginning of an epic friendship. And that’s fine. That’s… dandy. But I’m at this point where they’re sort of beginning to trust each other for the first time. Where they realise […]

The Dark Side is a Choice

February 8, 2012 by

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While I was wrestling with yet another version of a synopsis for Path the other day (this one encapsulating the series as a whole rather than just the first book) I realised there’s a recurring narrative element I hadn’t been fully aware of previously. It’s about the different flavours of dark side you can go. […]

Killing People Takes Me to My Happy Place

February 6, 2012 by

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I’ve known how Path (the series) ends for a while now (which is immeasurably comforting) but that just means I can see all six thousand plot strands and characters threads that are converging on the final book. And right now it like it’s going to be this dense, frenetic cascade of trauma and I just […]

Unreasonably Anxious About a Fictional Character

January 31, 2012 by

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Caris: And he’s sitting in the meeting thinking, Wish I could just shoot him. Jamie would have shot him by now. Me: That’s true. But Jamie has impulse control problems. I’ve decided what I like best about being a writer. Okay, what I like best about being a writer today. Sometimes, if you ask me […]

Plot: Gladiator Style

January 19, 2012 by

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I am trying to figure out what happens in this book. I have at least six different ways it could all go down. And they’re all good, but at this point no single one seems truer or stronger. The problem is, I don’t know my characters well enough yet. I have the voices of the […]

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