June 14th, 2009
I’m teaching myself Microsoft Project (because I’m nuts, that’s why), and I’m contemplating building a project plan for a novel.
Of course, I’m an idiot if I think building a plan is a guarantee of finishing anything. It’s just another trap to fall into if you aren’t careful. Mainly, I want to do it to teach myself a tool, and because it’s more fun than the example the book I’m learning from is using.
Also, I’ve been mulling this over for the last few weeks. Good article. Salient points. Need time to digest.
Tags: outlining, process
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April 24th, 2009
Synopsis-wise, that is. Something interesting. I am amused. And also about to pass out. Them sleepy thingies they make me take sure do work fastzzzzz….
Tags: conjure light
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April 22nd, 2009
A motif has emerged in this early synopsis, which is always nice. I accredit it to borderland creativity — the stray thoughts that wander through my head right before sleep. 90% of borderland creativity is crap, but every now and then something emerges and sticks.
The Guy attempts something other than a smirk for his Writer. It is a brave, but utterly doomed, venture.
In technology news, I have found that the laptop is good for synopsisisissing. For actual writing I still think I prefer the desk, the chair, and the soothing music of the iSpheres. But when all I’m doing is throwing ideas at the canvas and watching to see what trails they leave behind as they slide down (or out of sheer stubbornness and defiance of reality,
up), the couch and the soothing mumble of the TV and the 15.4″ screen isn’t so bad.
Oh, and I submitted my bio for the forthcoming anthology. This will be the first mention of The Guy in a bio. He is thrilled in his own smirking way.
Tags: bios, borderland creativity, conjure light, the guy and his smirk, valdemar
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April 15th, 2009
Is it possible I have found a good opening line?
It’s possible.
But these things are mutable.
And I’m still synopsisisising.
Tags: conjure light, outlining
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April 14th, 2009
Well, synopsis…is…ing….
Which comes before the outlining.
Ummmm. Yeah. I’m toying with a lot of ideas, but know I ultimately need to fix on a few pillars to address. Pretty sure what at least one of those is. Just not saying it.
My, what a helpful post!
So, writing? Yes. Just can’t say what until I have an outline.
Tags: conjure light, outlining
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April 7th, 2009
Well, I did it. I installed Wordpress and tweaked the hell out of the default template. It works in IE and Firefox. If you aren’t running those and it looks like ass, I apologize, but oh well.
Other blog will be going down shortly and redirecting here.
I should note that I have been writing, but because I’ve been waiting on updating this thing, I haven’t been writing about writing. Irony!
Aaaand it’s way past my bedtime.
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February 8th, 2009
::pokes brain::
::ideas squirt out::
….ewwwwww.
Still working out ideas. I’m giving each story its time. Outlines starting in a week or so, due to hijinks with birthdays and V-Day and so on.
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February 5th, 2009
That’s what I always ask myself after every completed project. Okay. What now?
I did a leisurely cruise through my old (1 year+) story starts and…I love three of them. Possibly even four. I can’t write three (four) novels at once, though, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years, it’s this: there should always be more irons in the fires and no story is your darling.
(Except when it is your darling, but I suspect you can only ever let it be your darling when you have five bestsellers published and the NYC editors breathlessly waiting for your next submission — but that’s for another time.)
I used to let a novel be my darling, and I would ruthlessly write, and rewrite, that one story until it was a tattered flag waving in the wind. That way, my friends, lies madness.
No story is my darling anymore, but I still love three (four) of them, and the conclusion I’ve come to is I’m going to outline all three (four) and then decide which one to write. And once I finish one, I’ll have an answer to “What now?” Move on to the next one, of course.
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January 31st, 2009
And changed the name back to “Midwinter Gifts”, which comes perilously close to violating one of my personal rules of writing (never title a story “The Gift”), but it’s a pun so I’m okay with it in this case.
Also, I now have glasses.
This is what a life of writing for a living in one way or another will do to you, kids.
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January 29th, 2009
As much as I have enjoyed using movable type, I’m probably going to convert the blog to Wordpress simply because it confuses me much less. And I am old and cranky and cannot be expected to keep up with all these newfangled technologies GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS.
Anyway.
Expect that later.
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