`Tis the season for lounging around in sweatpants and drinking cocoa, daydreaming about the looks on the faces of those we love when they open our gifts the next morning. Oh, and writing letters and e-mails to family and friends recapping the year, which is what I’ve been up to. Not exactly Writer’s Notebook materialContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: a blank page”
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A Writer’s Notebook: a love story
The scenes below are from a story I’ve been working on for a long, long while. It’s on my computer in a folder labeled “TO FINISH THIS FALL.” Sadly, winter is just around the corner and the end of the year just a few weeks away, and I doubt I’ll find a satisfactory ending toContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: a love story”
New Writer’s Notebook posts
Okay, as promised, I’ve caught up with the Writer’s Notebook, and with two really fun entries. (They were fun to write, anyway. I’ll let you decide if they were worth the wait.) Also as promised, I’ve backdated them to fit where they belong, so you can find the first entry on December 3 and theContinue reading “New Writer’s Notebook posts”
Bad Writing
Point me to the advance ticket sales, please! Dan Chaon posted this on his Facebook page, which is where I found it. Sounds like a fantastic (and potentially depressing) jaunt into cold, blinding reality. A bit like “the Bulwer-Lytton contest meets 90% of all graduate writing workshops.” Which is exactly how I’d have pitched this.Continue reading “Bad Writing”
A Writer’s Notebook: found message
No intro this week. Just the story, and then, below, the exercise. The first things he did when he got home from work was shuck his coat and pull a beer from the fridge. It was cold and wet outside, the rain thin but icy, the kind that freezes in your hair and stabs downContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: found message”
Still waiting on the working computer…
I’m still waiting on my computer. The part necessary to get it back to full capacity is on order, but it’s taking extraordinarily long, so in the meantime I’m still working on my much older, much slower laptop. I’ve managed to post my Photo blog entries for last week, but it literally took the entireContinue reading “Still waiting on the working computer…”
A Writer’s Notebook: HerInteractive story
So, as I wrote a while ago, HerInteractive is sponsoring a story contest, and I decided to play along. This isn’t a story I’d submit (for one thing, it isn’t finished; for another, I broke the rules), but here’s what I’ve done so far with the instructions for the contest. Isn’t it marvelous to beContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: HerInteractive story”
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programs….
My computer is on the fritz and is down for maintenance for the next few days, so I’m going to have to skip this week’s Photo blog and Writer’s Notebook. (I’ll still be writing, I just won’t be able to post it on Friday.) First thing next week, though, I’ll get both those posts upContinue reading “We interrupt our regularly scheduled programs….”
NaNoWriMo Conclusion
Well, it’s official: I’ve “won” NaNoWriMo,” with a final word count of 51,879 words. Fewer than last year, but many more to come if I expect to finish the story itself. Still, I’m glad to be finished with this frenzied marathon, because the whole experience has, as per last year, energized my writing, and I’mContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Conclusion”
A Writer’s Notebook: NaNoWriMo update #4
So, as promised, I’ve been tinkering a bit with the book since I returned from vacation, even adding some new scenes, but I haven’t updated the word count because most of the new text is still in my voice recorder and most of the changes have been internal, meaning that part of the word countContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: NaNoWriMo update #4”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 