Archive | October 2010
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Everything is Alright!
I’m happy to report that everything is alright! Yeah, no complaints, no regrets, no nay saying, things are just dandy. Yes, the first draft is a bit dodgy in places, but that’s what first drafts are for. I’m actually writing. The words are flowing, the thoughts are pouring, the ideas are going. Yeah, that […]
The Unities and The Short Story
I’ve read a few comments here on this blog and in other places about authors that say they can’t write good flash fiction (the shortest form of the short story). Flash fiction (anything from a few sentence to 1K-2K words) is seen as a new phenomenon in modern fiction, especially with the rise of online […]
Blind Alleys and Dead Ends
Being a write-by-the-seat-of-your-pants (breath, OK) type of write is great, but it does have one tiny little problem. You tend to miss a few exit signs along the way. You’re pounding the keyboard (or pressing pen to paper) and then something happens. A “wait a minute, this doesn’t make sense” kind of thing. You don’t […]
Choppy Waters
So far RoE is going well, especially after the headaches earlier in the year. But it would not be worthy of a blog post if I had nothing to complain about. So here it is. My writing is too choppy. Too many short scenes, too many jumps between POV characters. The story moves forward but […]
