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Abandoning The First Novel To Write A Newer Novel?

June 29, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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Several years ago I set out to write my first novel within a year, following a broad outline and writing several pages a day. A year and one week later, I had finished writing the rough draft in 2008. Alas, a rough draft it remains to this day. My first novel about video game testers [...]

Eight Is Enough Q&A Interview

March 11, 2011 by · Comments Off
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My Eight is Enough Q&A interview is up on Sarah-Jane Lehoux’s blog, where I answer eight questions about writing and what ebooks I got coming out in the near future. Please take a moment to read and leave a comment. The last question was fun: “This is the most important question you ever answer. Your life [...]

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 [...]

A NaNoWriMo Flash Short Story Collection

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Last year I had planned on taking up the 2010 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition by completing the remaining 50,000 words for my second novel (1/3 done at 25,000 words) this month. I also expected revising my first novel to be done by now, which didn’t happen since editing a novel-length manuscript is really, really [...]

Write, Revise, Submit, Repeat

July 15, 2010 by · 6 Comments
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Note: This is a special blog post for the “My Best Advice to New Writers” blogfest organized by Peevish Penman. If you want to be a prolific short story writer (Ray Bradbury wrote 400+ short stories during his career), you need to write, revise, and submit your short story. Then write the next short story [...]

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 [...]