New Year’s Resolutions
Yes, it’s the obligatory New Year’s resolutions post! I’m sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which...Year in Review
Short stories completed: 1 Scripts completed: 1 Novel first drafts completed: 1 Short stories that somehow morphed into novels-in-progess: 2 Short stories that were pulled from circulation and completely rewritten: 1 Short story submissions: 32 Short story rejections:...No love from Austin
I received my annual “Thanks, but no thanks!” letter from Austin today. A sample, for the curious: Thank you for submitting your script, Double Feature, to the Austin Film Festival’s 2006 Screenplay Competition. This year we received over 4,000...*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...Coping with novel anxiety.
I actually have… an outline. And the motivational spreadsheet of doom to track my wordcount. And… version control. Yes, version control, like programmers use. Why, yes, I am a geek. But I could have used version control sooner–I realized at one point...On second thought…
…I don’t think NaNoWriMo is what I’m looking for with Lizardfic the novel. NaNoWriMo still might be fun, but… not for Lizardfic. Which means that I need to come up with an outline, and a daily wordcount goal. Otherwise it’ll sit around my...Yikes.
I may be writing a novel. I received some crits for lizardfic today, and one of the critiquers agrees with Brian that the story might work better at novel-length. I suspect they may be right. Of course, I don’t have time right now. I need to finish this script....Must. Finish. Script.
The last pages of my script are just grinding out like cement. I don’t know if it’s laptop death trama and the associated rebuild/migrate/etc., the distraction of the new Precious, being busy at work, all of the above, none of the above… In short,...Complications Ensue
Um. Yeah. Laptop died. I kind of took the opportunity to go linux. Which means I had to import the script into Celtx, which I just don’t love as much as Final Draft. I’ll probably try to get Final Draft to work under wine as soon as I fix the video card,...Subscribe
