and plagiarism.

Forty years, the needle of guilt--and the smothering pillow of that internal sense of mediocrity--I figure, why not tell this story.

Larry Hammer talks about origami and it's totally about writing.

I'm a visual writer, so my battle is never about seeing the story. I don't just see it, I live it--and the act of writing makes time move in the storyverse. After 49 years of doing this (I started at 8) that part is pretty much habit. It goes fast, once I see the shape of things. But after I discovered that my drafts functioned as code words* ( Read more... )

I was talking last night with superversive about writing, specifically about editing, polishing, and especially cutting. He brought up this wonderful quote from Kipling that I somehow missed on my last Kipling read. (I find Kipling's short work in particular extraordinarily dense--not a single extraneous word. A couple of his later stories, one can argue, ( Read more... )

I've already discussed how being a visual writer is fun for assembling and living story, but not so hot when it comes to how I get it dashed down.
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