I’d been knocking my head against a plot point here at the end of the book the last couple of days. Today, in preparation for my big weekend push, I printed out and re-read the synopsis I had to write for Black Desert in order to sell the series. “Ohhhh,” I said aloud, “so *that’s* […]
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“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”– Roger Kahn There are no boxing scenes in Black Desert. How can this book have no boxing scenes? Maybe this is its primary problem with the book. That and the fact that I’m 10k from the fucking end.
20 pages today, to catch up. I accomplished this by skipping some filler scenes and going straight for the good ones. Sadly, it means tomorrow I get to write a bunch of filler scenes. Still about 2500 behind the schedule, but that ain’t no thing. I’ll have a draft of Black Desert by the end
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Sometimes what I suspect I’m doing – the way I live my life, what I write – is building an alternate version of femininity. I was at the coffeeshop today working on Black Desert, and at the the next table over three skinny, blond 14-year-old girls were drinking waters and frappuchinos, gossiping about boys and
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Working on writing up website text about insurance, revising a bunch of scripts for work, then come home, use up some more Chipotle money (carnitas fajita burrito, no rice, no beans, no sour cream, no cheese – wow, this has suddenly become a full-on “healthy” meal. “Only” 745 calories!), off to bookstore, crank out the
…but gaining. Am about 7K behind schedule, but that’s 3K less than I was this morning, so that’s something. This week is more relaxed at work, so I figure I’ll be able to catch up a bit before falling behind again next week. Heh. As you can see, I am not the world’s fastest writer.
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“Her name was Azizah, and she ran with a crew so hard-bitten and bloodlusty that they made Nyx nervous.” I can’t wait until I finish this book. Not because it’s a BAD book. It’s actually a pretty GOOD book, but I feel like I’ve been working on it, like, forever. And yes, I decided on
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Dammit, man, I want to crack 60k! Currently running about 5500 words behind. This is what putting together sales conference presentations all week and working on resumes (mmmm extra Chipotle money!) will do for your book. Guess who’ll be writing this weekend?
One of the things that always interested me when I was reading Really Weird Shit (like, say, a Mieville or a VanderMeer or even a Catherynne Valente), is this: Do they come up with all the weird shit in there the first time through, carefully working it all out, or is there just this made
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