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NaNoWriMo 2010 That Went Kaphooey

December 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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About a week late into NaNoWriMo, I decided to do a flash story collection that consisted of 100 flash stories of 500 words each. How hard was it to write four 500-word flash story per day for a month? Turns out that writing is the easy part if I had the idea for a flash [...]

Hitting A Brick Wall In Revising The Novel

October 27, 2010 by · Comments Off
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October was a lousy month. I blame the flu shot that I got last month for making me feel lousy and giving me a serious case of the blahs. I didn’t feel like editing, revising or writing for most of the month. It wasn’t writer’s block per se. It was more like that I lacked [...]

Letting Short Stories Lie Fallow

September 1, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This summer I took a break from the boring admin tasks of keeping 35+ short stories in circulation by letting them lay fallow after coming back with rejection slips to focus my time on revising my first novel. My tracking spreadsheet turned red over the last three months. Only a few recent short stories that [...]

The Writer’s Workflow

June 27, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Note: This blog post originally appeared on 12 June 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. Writing this past month [May 2008] became easier when I found my natural rhythm for the workflow. Since the project manager at my job told me to walk away from work at lunch time, I been [...]

Editing In A Creative Daze

June 20, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Note: This blog post originally appeared on 7 May 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. When writing my first novel stalled out after ten pages last month [April 2008], I switched gears to finish editing my long neglected vampire novella. If I can’t finish a novella with a half-dozen characters, 18,000 words [...]