Tag: fiction
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Let it grow / So we can watch it bloom
Just a song which has become pretty much the theme song for the story I’m currently working on.
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What’s it like there outside, with the living?
Just a song for one of my characters. “The Living” by Natalie Merchant
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The Short Fiction Writer’s Dilemma
Me: *writes 1000 word first chapter* Me: Are you sure about that? First Chapter: Yes. Me: Are you sure you don’t need more words or something? First Chapter: I’m sure. Me: Are you sure? I mean really, really sure? First Chapter: YES! [pause] Me: Really, really, really sure? First Chapter: *sighs*
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I Learned Proto-Celt for a Reason Dammit
. . . what do you mean, all the studying and reading I did on Celtic languages and Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain might actually be useful after all?
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No Big Deal
Just have to embody the essence of Florence in a few sentences. No pressure or anything. Edited to Add: I did it. Now I’m going to eat all the cookies as a reward.
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Writing Process Blog Tour Redux
A few years ago I participated in a Writing Process Blog Tour. This was during a particularly crappy part of my life, when I was not very happy with myself, or anything in general. I recently rediscovered that blog post. First, I had to chuckle at myself and my verbosity (:/). Second, I had to marvel and […]
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Today’s Writing Soundtrack
Here’s a couple songs I threw on repeat while writing today. Primavera Part 1 by Brian Reitzell Nine Crimes by Damien Rice: (Yes, parts of the story were very sad indeed. Why-ever do you ask? :P) Edited to add this: “Bloodfest” by Brian Reitzell
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Goal Oriented versus Task Oriented
In a couple of writing workshops I’ve attended, writers were encouraged to think of goals for each character, ie, a challenge or problem the character had to overcome which would signify change in the character. This is all fine and dandy, and seems to work for some people. The problem I always had that I […]
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Through Fires and the Abyss
So I was scrolling through the Twitter the other day, as I am wont to do, and I stumbled across this Tweet: If someone is holding your hand throughout the writing process you haven’t gone through the wall of fire yet. Fair enough, fair enough. Okorafor ought to know, as the multiple awards winning author […]
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