Archive for the 'Writing' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lies!
My dinner-party story has been put on the back burner. I still plan on writing it, it’s just that it was getting very weird: Rob Roy showed up. Then Bono. And I don’t want to subject anyone to anything resembling the middle act of Across the Universe.
But all is not lost: I’m now over [...]
Onward
Spent a good chunk of time yesterday both writing and editing. I’m reworking a story I wrote in the winter about Niagara Falls and broken dreams, and I’m hoping to send that out by the end of the week.
I also wrote about 600 words on a new story, (very) tentatively titled “A Progressive Dinner [...]
The Write-a-thon!
I’m participating in this year’s Clarion West Write-a-Thon in which past graduates of the Clarion West workshop set challenging writing goals for the weeks in which this year’s workshop is taking place. So, from June 22 until August 1, I’ve committed to write 500 words a day, come hell or high water. I’m looking for sponsors [...]
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