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do stop thinking about tomorrow
Oct. 20th, 2018 06:14 pmPlugging along on my D&D outline, knowing there are two potential sequels springing from issues not resolved in this book. . . .
Trying to ignore them.
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Trying to ignore them.
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water and writing
Jun. 29th, 2016 10:53 pmStart writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour
the big picture
Feb. 16th, 2016 11:55 pmIt helps to revise at a canter. Because the big question on revision is the big picture. Not whether this scene is dramatic or effective enough, but whether it contributes to the setting, the characterization, the plot, or the theme -- and preferably several.
Which means you need to hold it all in mind and revising at a canter helps with that. Especially since you need to read what you wrote and not what you thought you wrote. A scene that would be useful if only it was what you imagined. . . .
This can be awkward if you can't apply yourself steadily to it.
Which means you need to hold it all in mind and revising at a canter helps with that. Especially since you need to read what you wrote and not what you thought you wrote. A scene that would be useful if only it was what you imagined. . . .
This can be awkward if you can't apply yourself steadily to it.
Speedily a tale is spun, with less speed a deed is done -- as the Russian fairy tales put it -- but that was for oral tales.
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NaNoWriMo goes plugging on
Nov. 4th, 2015 11:25 pmplug, plug -- and looks like I'm falling into my usual pattern of lighter on the weekdays and catch-up on the weekends.
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Finish It! Completing Your Work
Feb. 16th, 2014 08:21 pmThis panel covered getting yourself writing as the most crucial part of getting it done.
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revising in a plot hole
Dec. 7th, 2013 02:50 pmBetween one draft and another, it is wise to put away the story for a time. Let it cool off. (work on something else in the meantime.) Read your prose with a cold eye, which can see what you actually wrote rather than what you thought you wrote and so smoke out lousy writing, flat scenes without sensory details, implausible plot twists. The month lets you forget what you were doing, so you don't take it for granted that a plot twist is plausible as well as surprising.
the trouble with quotas
Aug. 28th, 2012 09:29 pmWord quotas can be a wonderful thing to keep you going. Particularly if you are wise enough to set your daily quota higher than the usual number of words you need to get warm to your work.
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remembering. . .
Jul. 16th, 2012 10:19 pmSome writers write individual scenes from their works in non-chronological order. I don't.
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staying in harness
Jul. 5th, 2011 09:46 pmSome writers can drop writing for a time and then pick it back up again. Others of us need a more regular schedule to avoid falling off the writing wagon.
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drabs and dribbles
Jun. 12th, 2011 06:32 pmOne advantage about writing by hand is that you get going and write much more quickly than for a computer. Which means it can be carried out while waiting for the oil change, or the dentist appointment.
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The Dungeon Master vs the Writer
May. 27th, 2011 08:41 pmBack in the days when I was a gamer, some people expressed surprise that I was always the PC and never the DM. Because I was, after all, a writer.
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the backburner
Jan. 8th, 2011 12:01 amSometimes you put a story on the backburner for a couple days, or a week, or two. It is flat, stale, and profitable.
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You've got to do it some of the time, or no story will ever get done. (Maybe a drabble, but there's very little else that can be done in a single sitting.)
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