Monday, April 12th, 2010
Here's one word I've been waiting a long time to see. It's the one all the way to the right, in case you were wondering.
Editing is over. The novel only took a grand total of more than ten years to write and revise. Including three years off.
Now comes the hard ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Today's word count: 2024
Total word count: 25,348
This NaNoWriMo is beginning to feel more about the backstory of the novel, even just development of the characters, more than the novel itself. I think some of what I'm writing may find its way into a final product, but not all of it. ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
John Irving's twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River, is classic John Irving; the book not only contains many of the recurring themes of his best works (Garp, Cider House, Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire), ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
You may ask yourself, how did I get here?
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Oh, I'm having fun again. After a couple of months of not writing anything new, I've spent the last week plotting and working out some character sketches for a book I'm going to start in January. Like my last NaNo, I'm working on an outline in advance. I've already written ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
I'm working out some details on a new book I'm going to start in January. It's a story idea I first had more than ten years ago and now I'd like to go back and revisit it. In working out the story itself, I've realized there's an element of time ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
It's been four days since I got the notice that my short story was accepted, two days since I e-mailed back the contract which I did sign sign without kicking up much dust. Two days of waiting to hear back from them some sort of confirmation that they received the ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Back in May, I embarked on a program called The Artist's Way. While I didn't actually read the entire book, and didn't do all or even most of what Julia Cameron suggested, I did take up the morning ritual of writing three pages every day. Almost without fail (there was ...
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
This is what my week has consisted of, writing-wise. No computer. Just printouts and a red pen. After a week of carefully reading every word I spent only about an hour at the keyboard last night putting most of the changes into my Scrivener file. At that point I wasn't ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
The laundromat is unusually quiet this morning. Usually the fans whir, four hanging from the walls and two industrial ones over the doors. They cause such a din it's hard to hear the voices in your head. Add to that the television that hangs over the back of the room ...
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