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Rewriting is harder than I thought. I have an outline of my book, though it needs some scenes filled in that I couldn’t think of when outlining and planning it during the first half of this month. On the other hand, I’m no longer writing at the breakneck pace that I was during NaNo. Some [...]
Today was the Ides of March. As every good reader of Shakespeare knows, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the Ides of March. As not everyone knows, the ides happen every month. The ides were originally thought to be the day of the full moon. This turned out not to be the case, but [...]
Today is Pi Day, during which mathematicans and math fans alike celebrate the beautiful number that is the circumference over the diameter of a circle. I hope you were irrational today. I certainly was; I ate only pi-friendly food: Cheerios, yogurt (in a pi-friendly container), chicken pot pi, black-eyed peas, cranberry sauce cut into pi-friendly [...]
Those extra scenes are the hardest to fill in. There are scenes that should happen, but you don’t know exactly where to put them, even with a ready-to-go timeline.
That’s where I am right now with my editing. Several scenes showing the fallout of the inciting incident should happen, but inserting those scenes in the novel [...]
Today one of the trending topics on Twitter was Formspring. This was not just because people were posting their Formspring.me profiles, asking their friends to ask them questions, and making their Twitter accounts a feed of their Formspring questions and answers. A single article, supposedly from the Associated Press, popped up on the Internet. Twitter [...]
When inspiration isn’t there, we can’t give up and move on with our lives. Relying on the muse alone is a disaster waiting to happen, for the muse can fizzle out at any time.
We have to grab our muses by the collar, strangle them until they surrender, and then get back to work. Sometimes–most of [...]
I may be unemployed at the moment, but I’m currently editing a novel and trying to figure out a plot for Script Frenzy next month. Let’s look at a day in the life of a writer.
Wake up. Eat. Perform acts of hygiene. Dress. Ponder writing but remember that I haven’t checked email since last night, [...]
I took a year of astronomy in college, and during the introductory course we had to do one of two things for our semester project: make a sundial or write a paper connecting astronomy to a field of our choice. Art and I do not get along well, doubly so in the fall when I [...]
I’ve been developing my characters over the past two days, and one thing in particular has struck me: I don’t have a clue what it’s like to be a normal teenager. Unfortunately, asking most of the guys I know about their lives back then gives me a slightly slanted bent toward a seventeen-year-old guy’s mind. [...]
I don’t have a TV. Okay, technically my brother took my TV years ago with my permission and gave it back; now it’s just sitting in my room, unplugged. This is perfectly fine by me, since the only thing I watch that isn’t findable online is the national spelling bee finals in the late spring. [...]