Archive for July, 2008
FreeWrite: Betty Likes to Break
sooo,
Now that my first write-a-thon story is drafted, I wanted to cleanse my palette a little before moving on to the next one. Here’s another free-write exercise. 400 words from the pov of a character put in a new situation via a witness protection program.
Betty did bombs. Explosives. Fucking grenades. [...]
Progress
Finished a somewhat more together draft of my alien invasion story, now titled “The Way Forward.” Tomorrow I’m sending it off to a fellow write-a-thoner for critique. Another excerpt:
“Where are the onions?” She asked.
Walter had gone to the store with the other locals who had chosen to avoid the suffocating death of the [...]
Poor Willow
It’s storming here again.
As soon as it started raining I ran out on the balcony for urgent, strategic Jade Tree placement. Dubbed ‘Jade Willow’ by Dan, who has a fascination with naming all plants after a certain red-headed witch, it’s been with me less than a month and it’s already starting [...]
Storyline
Ho-hum.
I’ve finished the first draft of my alien invasion story, though to be honest, it’s not really ‘finished’ so much as I arrived at an interesting ending that really doesn’t have anything to do with the beginning. This is nothing new for me – I end up reverse engineering a lot of my fiction. I’ll [...]