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Writing Excuses 10.3: Lovecraftian Horror
Podcast notes: Sherry Priest (sp?) - writes in the genre of "Lovecraftian" horror. Lovecraft walked away from the trope that characters needed to make stupid decisions in order for the horror plot to unfold...Lovecraft's horror was about the horror that even a...
Day 1,341: Two Down…
Two days down...infinity to go. I woke up feeling hard today. Haaarrrrdd. I thought I was hung over from dinner last night (TWO drinks), and I was convinced that today was going to be a loss. I was wrong. I took allergy meds and went on a walk, and I was a new friggin...
Writing Excuses 10.2 – I have an idea, what now?
Podcast Notes: Take each of your ideas, and look for which one has the most built-in or clearest CONFLICT SIMPLE conflict is always the best. Convoluted is implausible Questions with ideas: what could go wrong? How could this thing go south? Dig deeper than just the...
Writing Excuses 10.1 – Seriously, where do you get your ideas?
Write down 5 different story ideas (150 words or less) -interview or talking to someone -research reading some source material (magazine/book) -observe something inside or outside -TV/Movie -piece of music Interview w/ someone: My grandpa told me about being hazed in...
Day 1,340: YAAaaasss
Okay... I kicked ass today. I stayed on schedule for my entire friggin day. Yes! Here's the key, and it's seriously all thanks to my wife: I had the entire morning to work free of distractions. It made all the difference. It was a world of difference. I will say...
Day 1,339: Change is Hard
I'm reminded tonight, after a rather frustrating day, how hard change is. It's hard to change. Really, really, really hard. It takes constant vigilance...and just like a baseball batting average, it's going to be mostly failure. At least that's how it is for me. If I...
Day 1,338: Nom nom
Coco is gnawing the huck out of a Whimzee right now. Nom nom. I wrote 600 words today. Sigh. Not 1,000...but words. I sat down, and I wrote them. Honesty time: work is hard right now. Don't know exactly why, except that it's still the early stages of transitioning...
Day 1,337: Furthest Page Read
Having some issues right now with the Kindle app on my iPad and my Paperwhite. Usually, I just read on my paperwhite, but today my paperwhite was getting low on battery, so I did my reading on my iPad. Well, that reading from today is not syncing over back to my...
Day 1,336: Yeeesss
I had a great weekend, you guys. Really great. I needed a couple days off after the past couple weeks of mad-dashery. Mission accomplished. It's already 11:30 so we're gonna keep this one short, BUT... Tomorrow I'm back in the swing of things. I've decided the new...
Day 1,335: No Words
For the first time in 20 days, I didn't write any new words today...and you know what? I'm totally okay with that. I needed a day off. And so I took one. It wasn't laziness, it wasn't despair or depression, it wasn't a lapse in willpower; I just simply wanted a day...