Wow.
I decided that my enthusiasm for in medias res had led me to start this story too late. There was a large amount of narrative summary/exposition that I thought might work better as scenes. 1400 words later… Yeah. And there’s a lot more narrative summary in...What I need.
What I really need right now is a Hollywood Creative Directory. I haven’t done anything with Dot Com since I heard back from Austin Film Festival during the big move, and it’s time I change that. Maybe this weekend I should cuddle up with Max Adams’...Sigh.
I’m trying to be all positive and stuff here about the writing process. Okay, no, I’m trying to be all positive in life about the selling fiction process. Anyway. I’m finding really long turnarounds to be much more discouraging than quick nos....How did Thanksgiving get to be next week?
No, really. I want to know! My mother is coming into town next week. She wants to help me unpack boxes. [Insert imaginary superbeing here] knows that I need the help desperately, but I hope she wants to do fun things, too. Partly because I want to do fun things. Fun...Is it wrong?
Is it wrong to be slightly envious of my fiction for being better travelled than me? I’ve never been sad about a story going to New Jersey instead of me, but I’m about to send a story to England. I’ve been to England, but it was in the late 1970s and...Break it! Break it!
So, Grandfather Paradox is currently at 1500 words. I think this is a bit short, and I think it’s short because I’m not breaking things enough. Things need to be broken in order to have things to fix during the course of the story. So, clearly I need to...You know what helps when I’m stuck?
Analyzing structure. It’s not something that tends to occur to me often. I’m more of a sleep-on-it, wake-up-drooling-into-my-pillow-with-the-answer kind of writer. There’s a part of my brain that I seem to access most easily if I’m not...short fiction paradox
One of my stories in progress has just gone in a totally unexpected direction. Which is when the good stuff happens, in my opinion. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that there’s no point in writing if I know how the story is going to end, but a large part of...Apparently, I don’t have to change my address for Austin…
I didn’t make it into the second round of the screenwriting competition. Which dampens my faith in that script not even slightly. Dot Com rocks. It’s the best movie script ever. It’s young, it’s hip, it’s screamingly funny, and someone...Subscribe
