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#showyourwork: What I’m Learning about Writing
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Nothing’s going to teach you like actual work. I’ve read books on writing, but the best lessons have come from just putting pen to paper. The ideas sort of cement themselves into your brain through repeated use, like the moves of an athlete. I’ve learned some stuff about characters. My…
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Writing up the wall: things I do between the pages
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The book covers above are just a sample of what I’ve been reading the last few months. In addition there are a few more novels, books of poetry (Dylan Thomas), various collections of world folklore (thank you public domain) and a few on writing. This seems like an insane amount…
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The Long Song: Analyzing Dirk Gently
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Last week I talked about a new exercise I’m doing to improve my writing. I found six books similar in genre to read and analyze to eventually perfect my plotting. I read and wrote out my thoughts on Storm Front, by Jim Butcher. After meeing Harry Dresden, I moved on to…
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“The Infection Begins” a new story
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Took a while, but here is a new short story. Continuing from my infection/survival serial. Not quite zombies, something much worse. The rest of my stuff can be found at somefiction.tumblr.com THE INFECTION BEGINS He stumbled through the disaster that was once a lab room. In the little light that…
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A Pearl of Wisdom from Neil Gaiman
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Make your writing time sacrosanct. Even if it’s only an hour a day. Either get up an hour earlier and write (Gene Wolfe wrote all his novels and short stories like this, until he was able to become a full-time writer) or take an hour in the evening, and head…