Ann Crispin’s Writing Workshop Rocks
If you get the chance, I highly recommend Ann Crispin’s writing workshop. She teaches beginning and advanced workshops every year at Dragoncon, and the beginning workshop rocked. It was worth the price of admission just for the manuscript critique. I plan to...Oh, sweet validation!
Ann Crispin recommended The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman for her writer’s workshop. The chapter on subtlety was sweet, sweet validation. Yeah, sure, I’ve been known to overdo it on occasion. I’d rather understate than write the scene where...Why, yes, it IS my first thrice-damned quiz…
I got it from Jen; can I blame her for my posting a quiz? 😉 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/column/sfw13339.html I got an 80. “A score of 66 or higher—You’re a E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross or Nancy...Note to Self:
It’s fine to have a programmer’s aesthetic when writing fiction. Just make sure you declare your variables and functions up at the top. 😉Reversing Myself.
Up until this point, I’ve been very firm in the idea that I should not rewrite old stories. (I’m not sure what the definition of “old” is, in this case, but…) Well. I believed quite firmly that “Median Effective Dose” was the...Sigh.
Deciding a scene needs to be moved to the beginning of the story is one thing, but then there’s rewriting every scene that came after. Oops. But as long as it makes the story better, that’s more important than an increasing wordcount…...So, gee, Katherine, where’ve you been?
Getting my gallbladder hacked out. I’d hoped, in my naïevete, to get some writing done in the week off work. But no. I also thought that I’d finish an involved novel critique I’m doing for someone, and that was also Not Meant To Be. I should get...Whoa.
So, I went to introduce the love interest, and… This scene needs to open the book. I just accidentally incorporated information that used to occur in an unlovely infodump that I planned to edit out later. No, really, I didn’t plan it, but it works. I love...*hangs head*
I’m kind of… …not writing. I suspect I’m less well prepared for my novel than I thought I was–I’ve been opening the document file and staring at it and closing it without adding anything new. Perhaps making the outline a bit clearer...Subscribe
