I've spent more than 12 hours today writing in various venues. Hit the rewrite in the morning with the Fairwoods gang, did about 25 pages of novel updates. Wish someone had told me sooner than Chapter 1 still sucked, but was totally fixable. So much useless exposition. And the blocking! Needed some work.

Apparently my fiction skills are not 1337 ( Read more... )

The muppets stamps are even better than I suspected. ( muppet stamp geekery )

Today was all about revisions and critique. As a start, I kept rolling with The Magister, reworking the plot points of Chapter 11 heavily enough to reverse an entire sequence of events. This turned out to be less complicated than I feared - it was mostly annoying in that I might as well have blown it up and started afresh. I triaged the casualties ( Read more... )