I have always been a pantser. When I get an idea it generally has an opening scene and one or more great characters. The story flows naturally from there. At most I would jot down the major points and a few scenes ahead but I figured the story might shift drastically so I thought that [...]
Archive for the ‘Work In Progress’ Category
How I Became an Outline Convert
Posted in Current Progress, On Writing, Research, Work In Progress, tagged conversion, novel, Outlining, preparing to write, reflection, writing, writing tools on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
July Heat
Posted in Current Progress, Work In Progress, tagged character building, current projects, expendable characters, July Novel, writing, YA on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s currently 29 degrees celsius (about 84.2 F) in my apartment and worse in the computer room. Those puppies do crank out the heat! I’ve told myself I won’t turn on the air conditioning until it hits 30 to conserve hydro. Since the heat has both myself and the cat doing nothing except lounging uncomfortably [...]
Words words words!
Posted in Current Progress, Work In Progress, tagged first draft, Goals, novel, work in progress, writing on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve set very lofty goals in writers group the last two weeks and so far it has been excellent. Ok, so I didn’t actually meet the first goal and I may not meet this week’s goal but what I have done is write consistently and long. It’s paying off too. The end of my novel [...]
A Goal with an End in Sight
Posted in Scriptfrenzy, Word Count, Work In Progress, tagged current projects, Goals, no apologies, Scriptfrenzy, wordcount, writing on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
April has been an interesting month. I began it with the best intentions of completing Scriptfrenzy but in the end I didn’t, or won’t by tomorrow night anyway. On three occasions I sat down to begin writing one of my short film scripts and three times I ended up writing a completely unrelated short story. [...]
Infidelity
Posted in Work In Progress, tagged cheating, fuck, novel, writing on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am being tempted. It has come. Curse of the writer mired by the tribulations of a difficult Work in Progress. I struggle and sweat to get through so many difficult little scenes and it is hard to keep going. I’ve done this twice before, I know I’ll get through. Probably. Then tonight I was [...]
Taking Inspiration from Real Life
Posted in Scriptfrenzy, Work In Progress, tagged cheating, clumsy, falling, John Irving, literary truth, originality, paranoia, philosophy, phobia, stairs on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am terrified of falling down stairs. I would say I was phobic but as my fear springs from a totally rational source I am clearly right to fear stairs. The problem is that I tend to fall down them. Sometimes I trip over some dangling thing I failed to notice. Sometimes I slip on [...]
Hey-o! I wrote a joke!
Posted in Work In Progress, tagged jokes, no apologies, puns on March 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks back during stressful moving time (love new apartment!) I woke from a very bizarre dream which I can no longer remember and a joke came to me fully formed. Now to be fair it is a joke that relies on punning and I know puns are no longer as respected as they [...]
A brief note on the coming year
Posted in Goals, Poetry, Work In Progress on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
2010 is almost over and I’m looking forward to 2011. I’ve spent December undoing a knot in my novel and now it’s back on track. I’m getting ready to submit some poems to Event Magazine. I have a list of publications I’d like to see my work in but I think this is a good [...]
Nano Win!
Posted in Current Progress, Nanowrimo, Work In Progress on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hey there blog people! For the first time I hit my Nano 50K early, at 7:30AM on the 28th to be precise. I used the rest of the month to get in a few more words but mostly I got lazy. Now we’re into December and I’m ready to get going again! Well almost, I [...]
