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Preparing to write

In the midst of the busy that has been this week so far, I’ve started outlining my next project. By “started” I mean rewriting all of the data I’d already compiled that was lost when the netbook imploded and by “outlining” I mean writing some sort of half-narrative synopsis type thing full of ideas and [...]

Writing on the anniversary

I started a new short story (or novella? Ah!) set in one of my worlds last weekend. I’m a few thousand words in and I’m absolutely loving the feel of the world again. I set it in a familiar world to get excited about the idea of going back to revise one of the drafts set in [...]

Sheer terror.

Am I allowed to admit to sheer, stomach-dropping-out-of-shoes terror? Or does that ruin my street cred? (Wait: I had street cred?) All I’ll admit to, in that case, is brain malfunction after overuse. Yes, that will suffice. I finish finished the work in progress’s final draft today, meaning all of the last niggling edits have [...]

Finished?!

It’s a term that’s always relative, isn’t it? Being “finished” with something — especially for writers. How finished is finished? Even now, a week after I hacked, slashed, and rewrote the final chapter in my Work in Progress, I’m reluctant to say I’m finished. In one definitional sense I am (the edited, cleaned-up, polished rewrite is [...]

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