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Timing is Everything
Like the classic joke goes, “In comedy, timing is… … …everything.” I’m reading the last in the Shadowmarch tetralogy by Tad Williams, SHADOWHEART. It’s a less than stellar name and most people don’t know that a four-book series is a tetralogy1, but Tad Williams is the reason I write fantasy–the reason2. So we’re going to…
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Germ Warfare
So here’s my suggestion: Write a guest post on a popular blog and then get sick when it runs, causing you to miss the brief exposure it provides you. Yay my immune system! I hate being sick. Mostly, I hate it because I’m sick. I doubt anyone sits at their computer writing a blog post…
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Guest Blog at Pimp My Novel
Eric is on vacation this week, so I wrote a guest post at Pimp My Novel. You should go check it out.
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Arbitrary Milestones
I passed 10,000 words on THE 7TH SACRIFICE this morning. This pleases me. I don’t know why it pleases me more than passing 9,000 words or 11,000 words. 11,000 is more than 10,000 so why doesn’t that please me more? And it can’t be some ridiculous “if I pass 10,000 then I know I’ll finish…
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A Good and Happy Life
Occasionally I’ll rant in my head1. Something touched me off yesterday. I think it was a webcomic or a response to a webcomic. I don’t know. The jist of it was that an author uses his medium as a pulpit for his own opinions. At face value, this can be true. The context of the…
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Hurry Up, Technology!
I’ve made this complaint before, but we need those dream records they have in “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.” I had a sequel/continuation to a previous dream. Both of them were awesome. Both of them vanished from my brain the moment I woke up. I have little broken pieces, images mostly, floating around in my…
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Find the Fun in the Boring
I wrote chapter 2 for 7Sac today. This is a big deal because it’s the first fully original chapter of this version. Pieces of chapter 1 got held over from my first attempt and much more of it came from the wind sprint I wrote. Chapter 2 was wholly fresh. I actually tried to write…
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Beginning Anew
I revised the wind sprint I wrote a few weeks ago into a MUCH better first chapter. There’s a little too much there, but I’ll pare that down during revision. The tone and the action are so much better. Less description of action and more action. I am incredibly pleased. The thing is, today is…
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Keeping Up Appearances
Having moved around a lot, I have a lot of friends online. And really, I was a quick adopter of the internet back in the ’90s and have a tendency to express myself online much the same as I do in real life. Especially when it comes to blowing off steam. Since I work with…