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Surprise! Writing News and Goals, August 2009
This is going to be a big month for me. This month, I’m committed to writing an additional 20K words, or finishing my fiction manuscript: whichever comes first. That thought makes my elbows shudder,...
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Congratulations, It’s a Girl! or Writing Gender
So, an interesting topic of conversation has been making the rounds on some writers’ blogs and forums recently. Namely, whether and why many (some?) writers express difficulty writing believable...
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What does fiction owe reality, or what ought it adhere to, if anything?
A friend was asking me how many pages of my book my seemingly endless research will take up. It won’t take up too much. Maybe ten to fifteen pages total. But I need them to be accurate. I have a...
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The More Things Change… The More They SEEM the Same At First.
Two days ago a friend asked me if I enjoy writing. I crossed the street before answering. “I hate it passionately, and want to wring writing’s throat,” didn’t seem like the fully appropriate answer....
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Is this the third act I see before me?
Zoikes, things are moving along now. I’ve been moving into the third act and rounding out the second. What required the break-through? Unflagging pursuit, I reckon. I reckon that just as growth is a...
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Oy. Another Good Book…
So, about a month back I bolted into Barnes and Noble for two books. “Just the two,” I reminded myself, hand against the door. Then something went wrong. Perhaps you’re not surprised. I stood...
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Developing Characters, or: What Doesn’t Kill You…
The other morning I had a guest over for brunch. In other words, I had to tidy the apartment. The problem was that my apartment was already tidy. This is because I’m writing a book, and writing a...
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Beyond the Point of No Returns
There’s no two ways about it. Writing is an insane activity. Both when it’s working—and one walks along city streets in earnest, deep conversation with oneself, periodically stopping still to jot...
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I know what this looks like.
Eons have passed—literal eons—since I last blogged. It’s obvious what’s going on. I have been transmogrified into a mongrel and have been living on the streets of New York since my apartment building...
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Shhhh! A secret…
So this is how my dear friend J began our conversation the other day. “Okay, now my mom told me not to tell you, but–” Egad! That is a scary start. I sat ramrod stiff and waiting for the scoop. A...
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