Archives for the 'Writing About Writing' Category
The Empire Strikes Back
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
My biggest fan over at Creative Loafing responded to the Paste Magazine post on Ohmpark I wrote last week. I had already started working on another diatribe to better clarify that rant, so I will also address this in it as well. Expect a very long one on Monday when I return from summer break. [...]
Flash Fiction: “Finals Week”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
In an effort to improve my short fiction skills, I’m going to start randomly doing flash fiction and posting it up here. They will be silly, indulgent, and disposable, mostly intended to be an exercise. To start things off, I wrote this when I was bored early yesterday morning: Finals Week Three questions in, and [...]
Final Draft Finished
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
I just completed the fifth and final draft of my first novel. After 16 years of imagining this story and 16 months of writing it, it’s hard to believe this fucking thing I’ve played in my mind a thousand times since I was little kid actually exists as a novel. Really fucking crazy. I have [...]
Kill Your Darlings ATL
Monday, August 9th, 2010
I’ve recently joined a writing group called Kill Your Darlings, and so far it’s been a great experience. In addition to having a resource to workshop my own pieces and learn more about writing by editing other people’s stuff, it’s been very nice to be around other writers. While I don’t necessarily need help to [...]
Heinlein via Sawyer
Monday, August 9th, 2010
I’ve never read a novel by Robert J Sawyer, but his personal website has been one of the most informative caches I’ve discovered in advice towards becoming a commercially successful science fiction writer. It’s sort of the way he has marketed himself, to be the guy who gives as much help to young writers as [...]
Summerology
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
I’m back at the novel editing yet again after taking the longest break since I started editing in January. With fresher eyes, I’ve identified a few somewhat major components to the writing that need repair, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to do so. It’s simply a matter of erasing some novice mistakes that I [...]
Independent
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Phish was fun. Hippies know how to party, and I am in recovery mode from the damage I did to my body. I hit a wall recently with these last rounds of editing, so I’m in the middle of one last vacation to freshen my mind before I finish this novel. Looking at the same [...]
Almost
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
I have just finished the 4th draft of my novel. Since the previous draft, I have rewritten just about every single non-dialogue sentence. Having been so concentrated on getting every story detail exactly right, I hadn’t really put very much effort into the actual aesthetics of the writing. I haven’t had a formal English/grammar class [...]
