I’m still kicking things along but I’m getting much more conscious of my time.
The Novel
I’m currently over 58k into my latest, and fourth novel. It’s going well and I plod along with a few k of words each week. Last night I wrote 300-400 words and this morning busted out a solid 900 words and [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by ryan
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Writers generally love to read, and this extension brings them to love to write. As I’ve said before, and I stole it then, to write is terrible but to have written is the most amazing feeling in the world. Part of that feeling of having written is getting the chance to go back and read [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by ryan
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My writing for 2010 is markedly different to my writing for 2009. Not necessarily in a bad way, in fact I think it’s going smashingly, but it most certainly is different and that can take some getting used to.
I am writing for The Weekly Crisis now, adding Op/Ed pieces about whatever in the comics world [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by ryan
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Yes, as some of you already know, I’ve sold out.
I’m a corporate player now, I’ve got the logo on the sleeve, and the party line memorised in the back of my brain. I’m just another shocktroop on the front line taking schrapnel for the big brains back in the tent who move us through the [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2010 by ryan
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I am a writer. By now you know that, but by day I am a mild mannered primary school teacher. It’s fun and it pays the bills. Score.
For the past five weeks I have been on summer holidays. It’s awesome, I’ve got like 12 hours a day with which to write and all that fun [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by ryan
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Today was a day like most. I woke, early-ish, I loaded up the computer, opened my Word files for the day, checked email, nerded out on Twitter, surfed the ‘net in general. I got a few hundred words out. It was okay but I just haven’t been feeling the vibe much this year, all thirteen [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by ryan
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I have an idea for a novel, or a novel about an idea, and either way it feels like the most organic, free-form thing I will have written so far. It’s not about crime or mystery. It’s doesn’t have anyone getting beat up or killers tracking their prey steadily and emotionless. It’s something else entirely [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by ryan
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I would feel remiss if I didn’t bring it up one more time. I mean, how many times will I get to direct people to Marvel comics and have them read my words? I am not sure if I will ever get a script published through them, if some master like David Aja, Alex Maleev, [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by ryan
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Before tackling a project I think it is very important to get to know your character. If you were writing a biography you’d want to have a beer with that person, maybe even shadow them for a while, get to know their inflections, their likes and dislikes. You’d soak up everything you could, if you [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by ryan
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What to do, what to do? The following are the rants and quandaries of a mopey lost writer one failed and slightly boring morning.
I finished my third novel, and might start proofing it soon, but certainly not this week. Gotta give it time to cool in the grave before I dig it up and start [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by ryan
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