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TV, beer, coffee, and writing: what I did the day after Thanksgiving . Happy stuff: We had not suspicions that the archons would do what they did until it had already been done. We’d been... More »
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Yeah yeah, 30k words. Volume is not the problem for me, coherence and consistency is. Latest excerpt (wherein the protagonist discourses on posthumanism): They say that no augmentation will carry the sweat-stain of those who... More »
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Word count: 4,077 (out of 50,000) Today I made a rough diagram of the plot, available in PDF form here. As No Plot?, No Problem! advises, this is only meant to be a rough guideline,... More »
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In preparation for National Novel Writing Month in November, I've decided to write an entire other 50,000-word novel in the month of October. To kick things off, I took a room at the Hyatt in... More »
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According to John Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist : Verbal facility ("a way with words") Accuracy and freshness of perspective ("the writer's eye") Special intelligence, which inludes wit, obstinacy, churlishness, childishness, oral/anal fixation, visual memory,... More »
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