Posts Tagged ‘outline’

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 [...]

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 [...]