From the monthly archives:

March 2008

I have a fever for the Frenzy!

March 31, 2008

My first quarter goal of finishing the novel I started during NaNoWriMo in November was pretty much blown to hell and back. That will have to be back-burnered for now since it’s Script Frenzy time! While I liked it a whole lot better when it took place in June, I had such a blast kicking [...]

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Got the sound, got the fury, but am I signifying anything?

March 30, 2008

Like a lot of writers, the ideas are the things that get me excited. I get partway through a project and one, two, or ten new ideas pop into my nogging begging for attention.  The crazier and more cosmically weird, the better. This creates two frequent problems for me.  The first is that I struggle [...]

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Deadline sounds so final

March 27, 2008

Yup.  I’m not going to make it.  My self-imposed deadline to finish the novel I’m working on is March 31.  It is now March 27.  It just ain’t gonna happen, boys and girls.  I don’t know how many words I have to go to finish the story.  If I try to extrapolate from what I’ve [...]

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It Is Finished(?)

March 21, 2008

When is a story–or any creative endeavor, for that matter–truly “finished”?  When can you say that there is nothing else you can do that could possibly make a piece any better?  This is a question I’ve often pondered, but most recently, it was a question that came to mind after I realized I had spent [...]

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The Importance of Being Earnest or: How to Fake Your Way Into a Writer’s Group

March 15, 2008

Joining a writer’s group was my wife’s idea.  I hadn’t really written anything since my first (and last) year of college and I was terrified of even the notion.  She wanted me to meet with strangers (actually I knew a couple of the people invoved)?  She wanted me to write.  I’m not a writer!  If I [...]

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