A good quote, yet another that hangs above my laptop staring down on my daily workings. Laughing at me for attempting what hacks get paid for and I do not.
Every writer I know has trouble writing
- Joseph Heller
It always makes me think. Heller was a genius (anyone arguing/questioning that point just go and digest Catch [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by ryan
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I’ve been writing more and more on my novel idea. It just keeps growing and growing in my head and on the page. I will sit down to do a chapter and they all seem to be getting longer, the world it inhabits growing larger and clearer in my head. I feel that strong rewrites/editing [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by ryan
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It’s a serious heading, isn’t it?
The last two weeks, and change, have given me time to work on a new project. A novel. It’s been nice to have so much time each day to devote to it, nearly every day seeing more come out of my head and more come into my head. It’s fun [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by ryan
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I’m watching Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory, not the creepy Johnny Depp version, but the original. The classic. The best. Everytime I watch it I’m amazed by how great it is, even though it really shouldn’t be a surprise. It consistently rocks the shit over the many years I’ve been watching it.
I can remember [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by ryan
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Lame title, I know, but it made me laugh on a lark. It stays.
A Captain America film is coming, this we know. Marvel has slated it for a 2010 release, if memory serves me correct.
Captain America is the story of Steve Rogers, a guy who was too skinny to fight in the world war so [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by ryan
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I have a great quote on my wall above my laptop. I’ve been looking at it every day, many times a day, for the last few weeks since it was printed off and put up.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
- Anton Chekhov
I think that is [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by ryan
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I am terrible at thinking up titles for things. Sometimes awesome titles will come to me, and sometimes I will struggle for a really long time. I cannot just think up a title, not like I can a lot of other words that I write. A title has to come to me, it has to [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2008 by ryan
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Writing is a torturous job. It can keep you up at night, it can make you only want to sleep in. It can consume your every thought, and it can cause all your thoughts to be born blank canvases, white paint on a white wall. Writing is not for the faint of heart, not feint [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by ryan
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I have to have paper with me at all times. I am a constant note taker. At work today I had to keep myself busy for a few periods so I was taking notes about my latest story idea. This story just keeps growing.
It started with a locale.
From there I got a main character. This [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by ryan
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I am spit balling some notes for a new idea I have. It’s very much early days, but I love the feeling of a new idea. It’s still all doughy and like wet clay, it can still become anything. I have a few different ways to go with it so have to nail down the [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by ryan
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