Tag: accomplishment
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Dystopia, Genre, and Finishing the First Draft
You may find yourself asking, where has Joe been? He hasn’t been posting three times a day. That’s night like you. You may also find yourself living in a shotgun shack. You may find yourself in another part of the world. If it’s the former, December is when I have to work. And not just…
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Dream a Little Dream of Me
In my last semester of college, I participated in one of the most influential classes of my university career: Senior Theatre Capstone. It was a discussion course required to graduate with a theatre degree (every arts degree had one: I took something similar for my English degree). It was lead by the department head and…
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Stuart Greenman has the right of it
Livia Blackburne tipped me off to Stuart Greenman’s entry into the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. In one sentence (and pay attention, it really is one sentence), Stuart Greenman shows everything that drives me nuts about fantasy: A quest is not to be undertaken lightly–or at all!–pondered Hlothgar of the Western Boglands, son of Glothar, nephew…
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50,000 words
If not for a dead battery, I would have passed 50,000 words yesterday in my WIP. I instead passed it this morning. Making a similar comment on Twitter yesterday, I pondered why I put so much stock in 50,000 words. Certainly it doesn’t represent the end point of the manuscript nor the midpoint. I have…