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(…yes, I’m in the middle of it. Why do you ask?) Here’s the thing. First drafts are supposed to be awful. HTat’s what they are FOR. You simply give yourself the permission necessary to WRITE BADLY if you have to, for the purpose of getting the bones of the story down on the page. There will [...] As writers, we think and talk a lot about plot and characters, and how they form the structure of our stories. In the past, I’ve talked about trying to approach writing from different perspectives or a different kind of “lens.” Change the camera lens and the view of the world changes a bit. (I know, stand [...] The following was first published in Aberrations 38, 1996, and reprinted in Nasty Snippets in 1999. Maybe more of a meditation than a story, it serves today to maintain the old site tradition of putting up something appropriate for the upcoming holiday. Hope you dig it… In the first box, by the door, she keeps her [...] If you’ve ever read an author’s blog for any length of time, or followed his or her Facebook feed, you will no doubt be familiar with the tradition of posting sporadic or daily word counts. It is, perhaps, the only metric that writers have available to measure our productivity. My favorite anecdote comes via Stephen King [...] The world changes based on physical laws and dynamics; people change based on physiological and psychological processes. How people perceive these changes and react to them is the stuff of, if not legend, certainly story. A recent David Brooks Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08brooks.html) on “The New Humanism” (which doesn’t look like the old or even current New Humanism [...] My own most recent experience, with a just-finished novel only now beginning to make its rounds to beta readers and agent and such, illustrates an interesting point. Readers like rogues. Think about a more famous situation than my own story, right now. Think Star Wars. (No, the ORIGINAL Star Wars, not the latter three abominations.) They had [...] Inspired in part by Brian Hodge’s post last month on predictability, and in part by a quick exchange of emails with a writing buddy about readers’ reactions to story endings, I had already been thinking about this month’s topic over the past few weeks. Then current events added a new dimension to what passes for my [...] I have become alarmed over my short period as a publisher by what seems to be a significant lack of concern on the part of my fellow authors toward their own work. Most of us are good at keeping backups of the work in progress, getting through the edits, and getting a book to print, [...] |
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