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Quick'n' Dirty Version: The Write-a-thon Report
Novel rewrite currently at 24.5k, plus woke up with a short story title in my head and had to get it down, along with about 450 words of a story start, while the morning coffee was brewing. 'Thon goals met. Way behind on Apex editing, but that's what Friday is for. Zombies still eating my brain. (They eat very slowly, it seems.) -
Edit-fu & the WaT Check-in
Some edity thoughts before the write-a-thon check-in...
I was asked once about advice I would give to people who wanted to get into editing, and I mentioned that you really need to love editing for its own sake, love looking up grammar rules and continuing to learn everything you can because the rules do change, and that's part of the fun. What I ( Read more... ) -
The Wednesday WaT
Oops...almost forgot today was Write-a-thon check-in day. So far, it's been...typical WaT week three. I always seem to have a week three crash. Funny, because I didn't at the CW workshop...though I did write a terrible play about a talking head of lettuce that liked to wax philosophical in a Jungian vein.
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The Sunday Write-a-Thon Check-In
I'm calling the week a success, though I can't actually say for sure that I put my hour in on Thursday because I forgot to look at the clock. I finished polishing up a story and sent it off that day, plus did a little more tweaking on the old novel chapter, so I'm assuming it was at least an hour and therefore a success.
Other hours verified and a ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday Write-a-thoniness, Week 2
So far this week hasn't been quite as productive as last, but I did get the chapters on the old novel tightened up (I may take another look at one of them, though, just to be sure) and it turns out that the short story I thought would need a lot of revision really only needs a rewrite on the end, so that's good. The old story I was looking at ( Read more... ) -
Write-a-thon, Week One
I'm actually sitting here smiling a little at my computer screen because week one of the WaT went so well. Despite a mid-week drain, I somehow (and I really don't know how) managed to get TWO short stories (now known as "shories," thanks to my inability to speak earlier today) through the first draft, then took one of them through two subsequent ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday Write-a-thon check-in
Because I said I would ( Read more... ) -
Write-a-thon, Day One
The Clarion West Write-a-thon began today, and I dutifully did my hour of writing after a procrastinatory morning of making sure the cats were not neglected, then an afternoon of catching up on other work and heading to writers' group, where other cats received large helpings of un-neglect. Oh, and csinman 's story made me laugh so hard I could barely ( Read more... ) -
Some Thoughts After a Day of Editing and Slush
I haven't been editing all that much today -- in fact, it's been the most relaxing day I've had in months. Relaxing enough that I could take the charged-up laptop (hooray for the new and improved 8-cell battery!) out to the park and read it while enjoying a gorgeous Northwest day.
Some random thoughts that occurred while doing so:- Even enjoyable ( Read more... )
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How to Proofread
I'm in the midst of proofing Write-a-thon participant pages (http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009), so I thought I'd share a bit of that process with the world.
Step One: Caffeinate.
This is the most important step of all; I don't recommend proofreading your own ( Read more... )