I am done. Not completely done, but in the road trip of the writing of a novel, I have made it to my first destination. I’m at the motel and I have the keys to my room in my hand. I can relax. I’ll check out the largest worm tomorrow, but for now, I sleep.
Yes, [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by ryan
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Brian Wood is a comic book writer. It would also appear that he is a genius. He just summed up writing in a way that i love, and will paraphrase for the rest of my life, until eventually the quote gets attributed to me, and I have to come back and delete this post just [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by ryan
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It’s funny to write and see the characters do something you totally didn’t see coming. I know I have written about this before, but it really is a strange phenomenon to watch happen as the words spill out.
I was just writing a reunion between two characters. I knew the guy had two options, he was [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by ryan
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Have been writing a tiny bit over the last few days. Not much, had other things to do, but managed to sit down from time to time.
I find that there is something concerning me as I write each time. I wonder about the paragraph breaks. How do you know when it is time to break [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by ryan
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That title is a swipe from a line of Stephen King’s Hearts In Atlantis. He is referring to picking up the chicks that you don’t want to, if you get my drift. I, however, am referring to a multitude of sins.
Writing, always first and foremost, I just felt like I was slopping the hogs all [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ryan
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I have my plan. Very rough. Very open. It consists of one piece of A4 paper, my scribbly handwriting covering it on either side. There are character names and where I have left them in the story. There are scenes that I want to see happen and notes on where stuff should go. There’s a [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by ryan
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I’ve just about cracked it, 100k of words. It feels awesome and crazy all at the same time. I set out to craft a novel, something which I researched should be about 80k, give or take. Now I’m 100k, and I still have the conclusion to draft. Insane…
I plan things out, roughly. I like to [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by ryan
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Some of the first cd’s I ever bought were soundtracks. I’m a movie geek, so my music tended to stem from there.
Aladdin.
That was my first cd, oh so many years ago.
From there stemmed more good stuff. Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs. Desperado. From Dusk Till Dawn. (See the pattern yet. Hey, there were good soundtracks.) Then [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by ryan
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I sold some books from my shelves, I know I wouldn’t normally do that but I finally realised that there was no reason for me to still have some of these books. I really disliked Joyce Carol Oates’ Zombie, so why cart it around for 5 years and nearly as many towns, and a damn [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by ryan
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I am spending, roughly on average, about eleven or twelve hours a day in my office at the moment. Most of that time spent at this here trust laptop. Much of my time is spent writing, but I won’t lie and say all of it is. I’ll knock out a page, a paragraph or even [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by ryan
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