Yes, I know, I can hear everyone staring at their screen going, "Well, d'uh." Shut up, I know, I know. Let me explain (or at least pull my foot out of my mouth).

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Huh. Queries ( Read more... )

In my attempts to finish up the plot outline for Butterfly Massacre so I can finally start actually writing the damn thing, being spurred on by
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Joining the early self-pimping club I, along with several other DWers (
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I'm not late to this party, just fashionably after hours. That, and I needed to figure out what my "rules" were, because it's not something I've thought heavily on before, but it makes sense to find out what they are ( Read more... )

For the moment, I think I'm gonna try focusing more on one story and keep a few others as background/distractions. I know I've said before I was gonna choose a few stories to work on, but I figured that that wasn't quite enough. Having so many, going from one to another isn't going to exactly speed up the process if I'm just jumping between ( Read more... )

Recently I've been reading about different ideas on what writing is. How does one qualify the act of writing, and how would someone go about actually defining it. To me, as with most things, it's all in how you see it ( Read more... )

I've been spending the better part of the day reading about criticism and reviews, directed mostly at horrible young writers with massive egos, antishurtugal and Robert Stanek. How authors take criticism, good or bad, is a widely discussed issue and overall it makes for hilarious reading.

There are several takes on it;

• Some refuse to read reviews or ( Read more... )