Writing Advice: Writing About Doing the Er… Thingy…
I would like to talk about writing about putting sex in your novel, but alas I know nothing about sex. I am married.
Just a second…
Tag: Writing Advice
I Got Nothin’
Writer’s Advice: Er… Um… No, I Am Not Stalling For Time, If THAT’S What You Think…
You wake up, you plop yourself down in front of the keyboard, the desk with your notebook, or a fresh clay tablet and a writing stylus, and…
Nothing. Big blank. Beyond nothing. You’ve discovered an idea singularity, where the smallest notion (once if falls past the event horizon) is irretrievably gone. You can’t even get close to the idea because the singularity is small… perhaps only a little over three solar masses. The tidal forces and radiation would rip you to shreds and fry you. Great news if you’re General Tso’s Chicken*, but not if you are a writer.
TMI Party Time!
Word Count
It’s become a bad habit now. I’ve marked up the first 1/4th of the novel but there is SO much left to do. However, I don’t want to make a big to-do out of it. Yes, I meant to do that.
Writer’s Advice: Details! Details! Details!
A few beginner sci-fi writers I’ve met are all about the “world building.”
Oh, Improptu You!
Word Count
Seriously, why is that really a thing anymore?
Writing Advice: Bullsh*tting!
NanoWriMo is over, daily word counts are done, a wild stab at writing something long has been stabbed, the horses have all flown, the gerunds have done whatever they do, the last rabid dog has been shot, and Atticus has finally shown Scout that he has the capacity for violence.
Now what?
Writing When Drunk!
Word Count?
Sure. Why not? Here is the printed out final of my first draft. Second draft involves me, pens, and my spidery, illegible handwriting. I am so old-fashioned sometimes.
The BIGGEST minutiae 