Archive for August, 2009
Time flies when I’m writing
Wow, I’m so close I can taste it. I see more and more light at the end of the tunnel. I can see the ribbon at the finish line….wait, that’s a real jumble of metaphors.
This blog isn’t about updating my writing projects, so I do appreciate everyone’s patience when I’m working on a rough draft. [...]
The best part about being a writer…
Well. Well, well, well. Lillian surprised the hell out of me. Not only are we through the big event scene, I was totally unprepared for how it went down. It’s one of my favorite things about writing fiction. I never know where the characters will take me.
She whined for a few days about going back [...]
Too many threads to the story
I’m coming up on the final scene angst. Can I make it dramatic enough? Will there be enough tension? I’ve slowed down, playing with scene order, trying to figure out where chapter breaks fall. I blame a lot of this on my MC, especially in light of the conversation we had this weekend:
Me: Enough. Don’t [...]
WYMJ Weekender 8.2.09
Can you believe it’s August already? Where has this year gone? While compiling this post, I got lost…first into the hilarious world of wedding bloopers and dances, then into music videos, and finally into The Guttenberg Project (again). However, I persevered much past my bedtime and again this morning, and have covered only half of [...]
