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- September 14th, 2010, 11:14 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Dealing with Perfectionism
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6977
Re: Dealing with Perfectionism
I cringe when I look at my stuff from just last year. And then people tell me that my latest chapter is the best yet and I keep getting better (I publish my stuff scene by scene on my blog for free), and I go crazy wondering what's wrong with the earlier stuff. And oh yes - I also shudder when I get...
Re: Boring
Haha - I guess I'm finding the article boring because I keep skipping around to all my other tabs. Ah, it gets good towards the end. Yeah, I've seen that whole dynamic at work before. On some Sims 2 story forums back in the day, the ones mostly populated by teenagers, I'd post excerpts from the stor...
- August 16th, 2010, 10:37 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 828467
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
I managed to bust out a chapter in one day to meet my Web Series Writing Month deadline. :) Here's the index to the story. 10 Story Index 10.05 isn't high art - it's not the language fireworks of the introduction to 10.04. But it works, and I think that this part of the story called for more plain s...
- August 11th, 2010, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Do you keep your WIP to yourself?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8522
Re: Do you keep your WIP to yourself?
I publish mine on my blog, so...definitely not. LOL. :) But then I am all open and extroverted and have no interest in getting paid for writing at the moment. Money can't compare to the rush of a good stats page day and...let's see, I reply to most of the comments so divide by 2 - 1430 comments from...
- August 11th, 2010, 8:43 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Its got a nice beat I can dance to....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6376
Re: Its got a nice beat I can dance to....
If you want good lyrics, can't go wrong with Josh Ritter. And he does have a novel coming out soon. :) Here's an excerpt from his song "Temptation of Adam". Then one night you found me in my army issue cot And you told me of your flash of inspiration You said fusion was the broken heart th...
- August 10th, 2010, 10:24 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writing Soundtracks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6644
Re: Writing Soundtracks
I have so many writing playlists, it's not even funny. I think my main character (he's in my avatar :) ) has like five or six playlists just for him. There's the EmoTeen!Seth playlist, which has emo/angsty 90s alternative songs (I was a teen in the 90s, so the music helps me remember what it was lik...
- August 10th, 2010, 9:58 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Favorite Part of Writing
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12214
Re: Favorite Part of Writing
Wrote a blog post about this recently. Yay copypasta! :) Basically it's saying that my favorite part of writing is...well, writing. I don't really plot or do outlines or do a first draft and then edit. I have spent eight hours on a paragraph before moving on to the next one and although I do have a ...
- August 9th, 2010, 11:56 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Asphyxiating Alliteration
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5133
Re: Asphyxiating Alliteration
I do alliteration. I like to think I keep it in restraint, though. You know, Poe is my biggest inspiration as a writer. I read him so much as a kid and I can see his influence on me now. But I never even realized that my alliteration might come from him. Looking for an example to share.... I've been...
- August 6th, 2010, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Are you a Crafter or an Artist?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19146
Re: Are you a Crafter or an Artist?
Definitely Artist. I want to hang out here because it's people talking about writing and literature, which are things that I love and love to talk about. But well - when faced with a forum full of craftspeople, it feels like I'm back in daycare in elementary school and finding out for the first time...
- August 5th, 2010, 9:52 am
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 456418
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: 10 Genre: Dark YA Word Count: 243 The universe was white, silent, cracked. He counted ten cracks, ten faults in the perfection of time and space, before the hands on his shoulders yanked him away from the wall and sent him hurtling into the hard edge of a sink. He wanted to be a drop of water...
- August 5th, 2010, 9:46 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 87353
Re: Share your opening sentence!
The universe was white, silent, cracked.
- August 2nd, 2010, 8:36 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What's Your WIP?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3526
Re: What's Your WIP?
10 :) It's the story of the villain of my Sims story as a 15 year old. Lots of angst and violence and crushiness, with a hint of alchemy. :) I guess it's like - I don't know. Last night I spent like an hour on a sentence. The rhythm of the sentence seemed to call for an adjective with the letters d...
- January 18th, 2010, 11:37 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What are you writing now?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 27039
Re: What are you writing now?
I recently decided to write a story about the events in my villain's sophomore year of high school, the turning point in his life where he started down the road to becoming the Seth of Valley proper. And yes, that's him in my avatar. :) And it's full text, no pics. I think I've learned all I can abo...
- January 13th, 2010, 11:38 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 312687
Re: What are you reading now?
Umm - my Edgar Allan Poe collection, a collection of early American "fantastic tales", thumbing through Hamlet because I've realized that my villain is sort of Hamlet-ish and my heroine is sort of Ophelia-ish and when I read essays about the themes and characterization of it I see things I...
- January 13th, 2010, 11:32 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Recommendations: How to Books on Fiction Writing
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12158
Re: Recommendations: How to Books on Fiction Writing
I found Gardner's The Art of Fiction at B & N Friday night and felt like I'd died and gone to heaven. It was exactly what I'd been looking for in the writing reference section for years and had never found. I fell in love when I read this sentence. "The first and last important rule for the...