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A Writer's Journey
So, it was Monday all day today, I didn't get that much done that I can transcribe. Besides which, I seem to be completely unable to type words today. My auto-correct is threatening rebellion and my thesaurus is handing out torches and pitchforks to the other reference books and coaching them to say "rhubarb" when they storm the word processor. ( Read more... ) -
A Writer's Journey: some thoughts along the way.
Writing takes work and discipline. Today is a good example of where that discipline was necessary.
I found myself with some extra time on my hands due to the cancellation of a game I've been running. Suddenly, I had around 6 hours free that had previously been accounted for. And they had been slotted for something fun. I could have spent my ( Read more... ) -
A Writer's Journey - Main Character notes
Okay, character notes for the main characters took up almost 2000 words, once I added in my own thoughts on the sources of each character. Granted the other characters are going to take up a lot less space...well, that's the plan, anyway ( Read more... ) -
A Writer's Journey
So, it just got serious. Notebook is acquired, and I picked up some pens just for this project. Finished up the major character notes today and started world building. The other world has a tentative name: Eroth. The other version was Oreth. Still tossing around the idea.
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A Writer's Journey
So, today, the plan is to continue with the character notes and expand that into world building along the way. I'll also be picking up a notebook today that I'll be using specifically for this story.
Making a notebook for a story is how I signal my intent to make a story real. There are a lot of ways to look at this for me. On one level, it is my ( Read more... ) -
The Writer's Journey
I've started a blog/page/journal process following the writing process from "I have an idea" to "I just finished the rough draft" to show how a story is written from one writer's experience. This is going to be a spoiler filled, technical jargon laced, inside-the-writer's-head experience showing what goes on behind the scenes of telling a story. ( Read more... ) -
The company you keep.
A warning: If you are most authors with Tate Publishing, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency or being marketed through Turnaround Media, The Write Agenda thinks you are a crap author and need to “get a real job because you fail as an author”, or so they say. Remember The Write Agenda, Tate and SBPRA writers? They were the folks who were ( Read more... ) -
An open letter to Brother Dean
An open letter to Brother Dean at the University of Arizona
Brother Dean,
I need your help in instructing my son and daughter about rape.
Recently, you wore a sign on the University of Arizona campus bearing the message “You deserve rape,” and said that if a woman dresses like a whore, she’s asking to be raped and that she bears responsibility ( Read more... ) -
For everything, there is a time.
Right now, there is a lot going on in my head.
I’m angry as hell, and the target of my anger is forever beyond human justice.
I’m sad, I want to cry for the children who were killed today, and I can’t. I don’t give a damn if it’s the manly thing to do or not. There are just some things that trump the fuck out of macho. When a child hands you a toy ( Read more... ) -
Raging against the Machine...
Normally, I am a very sensible man. Very objective and open minded.
Today, that isn't the case.
I am ENRAGED. And the thing is, it's at one particular group of people. This is almost never the case. And I guess, to be completely accurate, it's at all but five people in that group. So, who is this group that has earned my enmity, my burning ire? And ( Read more... )