What I need.
What I really need right now is a Hollywood Creative Directory. I haven’t done anything with Dot Com since I heard back from Austin Film Festival during the big move, and it’s time I change that. Maybe this weekend I should cuddle up with Max Adams’...Sigh.
I’m trying to be all positive and stuff here about the writing process. Okay, no, I’m trying to be all positive in life about the selling fiction process. Anyway. I’m finding really long turnarounds to be much more discouraging than quick nos....How did Thanksgiving get to be next week?
No, really. I want to know! My mother is coming into town next week. She wants to help me unpack boxes. [Insert imaginary superbeing here] knows that I need the help desperately, but I hope she wants to do fun things, too. Partly because I want to do fun things. Fun...Unpacking hell
I have so many boxes. The cats have an exciting box playground. I feel like I’m making no progress at all, but I’m gradually clearing a path. Of course, what I’m making no progress on is writing. Sigh! I have plans, but there is almost no butt in...Kitties in the sun.
Is it wrong?
Is it wrong to be slightly envious of my fiction for being better travelled than me? I’ve never been sad about a story going to New Jersey instead of me, but I’m about to send a story to England. I’ve been to England, but it was in the late 1970s and...Vanity publishing, rejection, and other gibberings.
Teresa Nielson Hayden has a blog entry about a guy selling his unfinished manuscript on ebay. He includes a letter from a “legit company” offering to publish his novel for only $700. I have no idea if this guy can write or not, but I hope he listens to the...Break it! Break it!
So, Grandfather Paradox is currently at 1500 words. I think this is a bit short, and I think it’s short because I’m not breaking things enough. Things need to be broken in order to have things to fix during the course of the story. So, clearly I need to...You know what helps when I’m stuck?
Analyzing structure. It’s not something that tends to occur to me often. I’m more of a sleep-on-it, wake-up-drooling-into-my-pillow-with-the-answer kind of writer. There’s a part of my brain that I seem to access most easily if I’m not...Subscribe
