...where you say you're going to sit down and untangle a plot that has gotten away from you, strip it down to the bare bones, and keep all the things you started with, because they were really good ideas and made sense, and re-build the plot from there ( Read more... )

Things I've Been Doing When I Should Be Writing:

1. Doing Logic Puzzles

For those that aren't cool and don't know what a logic puzzle is, they are the "box puzzles" where you have to match an attribute to a place/thing/person (usually) based on clues listed below. (Here: this probably explains it better than I could.) Back in grade school, these ( Read more... )

I had the sudden urge to clean my room at 5 pm yesterday. Even though my room is messy (actually it is gross; I need to be better about cleaning), the need to clean was a procrastination tool instead of being neat. I am at that point in my manuscript where I know what is next. I just cannot write it. The scene is in my head, and that's the problem ( Read more... )