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I can has outline?
One NaNoWriMo novel, one incomplete screenplay, and a novel-in-progress with outlines and I suddenly no longer want to work without them. I suppose this is a good thing, since writing without is sometimes a big timesink, but I still feel like an outline junkie. I've...
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I’ve been quiet…
I've been writing a lot. Well. Last weekend I was sick. Let us not speak of it. My action chapter is still kicking my butt, because, well, it's action. It'll be okay, and the next chapter should have fun stuff in it. Well, there was something fun tonight--I wrote a...
Action Scenes. Hard.
My first drafts of action chapters are about 500-1000 words. This is pitiful, and caused my outline spreadsheet to say my novel would come in short. So I sighed, and turned sentences into paragraphs. It's now about 2000 words, which is still too short, but at least my...
Sigh.
Action scenes are hard. Let's do math instead!
Unwelcome Bodies, by Jennifer Pelland
This anthology contains several stories I really love, including "Big Sister/Little Sister," "Captive Girl," and "The Last Stand of the Elephant Man." I'm sure I'll love the others just as much. Jennifer Pelland is made of awesome. Therefore, it's only logical that...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.