So I'm sitting at this point, staring at the list of scenes in Scrivener. And -- I'm torn. I know how I originally wanted this to end, but the story wants to take the super-scenic route, which is throwing the pacing off by a good bit. Frex: looking at the various lengths, I'm going anywhere from 300 to 1500 words per scene, and then bang the end is ( Read more... )

Wrote a bit more of the story on the plane. I think I can see the end of the tunnel, now.

They're telling their own story now. Reading through the whole story again and adding on to the current endpoint.

i have a story in my head and i am filled to gasping with it, with desert-bright eyes glittering.

A while back, synecdochic mentioned Liquid Story Binder. This is a software app that is intended to help writers write. For more information, see Black Obelisk Software.

On Monday, there's going to be a deal courtesy of Bits du Jour that lets you buy LSB for about $15. Details hereGiven that I liked LSB rather a bit when I tried it out last year, I'm ( Read more... )

Munching on crackers and sundried tomato pesto (woman if your store offers this and you like sundried tomatoes, GET THEE HENCE and EAT IT. NOM NOM NOM ( Read more... )

Twenty off sales at the local used bookstore are dangerous. I staggered out of there with a goodly stack of books, including, uh. Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a book about the guy who discovered/invented/figured out longitude for the first time ever*, Robert Forward's Return to Rocheworld (the story sucks, but the alien ( Read more... )

As I have a 9AM meeting tomorrow, I won't be staying up as late as I normally do. Woe. But on the up side, I have a purry cat doing his best to squash my foot. And I've been plugging away on the queen story -- it's at 6176 words, although this part is going to need a lot more blood sweat and tears before it's as good as the earlier parts ( Read more... )