Holy hand grenades, Batman!
I generally think of myself as bad at plot. Maybe I think this because I sometimes end up writing a first draft in which I follow a character around a setting and nothing happens to him or her. (This is generally what’s wrong with the hurricane story, by the...Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel....Edit, edit, edit.
I’ve been collapsing characters in the hurricane story. It’s done some cool things to the minor characters that have been combined. I still haven’t tackled the plot stuff. I think I’m a little intimidated by it. I have a pretty good idea of how...Getting Things Done
I’m getting lots of things done today. I just don’t have any new prose to show for it. Critiques! Edits on the hurricane story. I’m pondering the outline for the new improved Lizardfic. The outlining in particular feels productive. I’m pretty...Nerd stuff.
I was having this problem. Moving the mt-static directory to the top level of my webspace fixed it. If you’re getting a funky error on the comment page about whether you’re logged in or not, log out and log back in. In other news, I’m using this...Wow. My outline sucks.
I’m rereading Lizardfic and the outline materials associated with it, because I’ve been thinking that it may be time to work on this one again. You may or may not recall that this was the short story that turned into a novel that turned into me rewriting...Random Snippet
In lieu of actual other content, I bring you a bit of the hurricane story: “Do your best to keep the network up,” Mr. Libby said. “Banking is depending on you. And the rest of our city contracts, of course, but banking is more important than...Meh.
Summaries are hard. Let’s do math rebuild a RAID array instead!Showing Its Origins
I’m running the NaNovel through critique group right now, and even though I made several passes through it and tried to flesh it out, it’s still kind of rushed. It used to feel very much like… if you’ve ever heard Jaws, the screenreading...Subscribe
