2008/10/28
2008/10/26
Crap.
Only three pages this week. I’m in the mood to take a break but I really want to get a readable draft finished before we take off on our road trip and I have two weeks to do it.
Fingers crossed.
83,433 words and counting.
2008/10/25
2008/10/22
2008/10/20
2008/10/10
Can I get paid in salt?
I was never able to get in on a mortgage or a 401k. Because I put all my money in cash and comics I still fell pretty good about my chances of making it through this recession. Despite the fact that every news service I read or listen too is full of fear of looming crisis’.
And since I’m completely uninvolved with fiance I am free to lay blame all over the place:
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Never having had much money myself I don’t know how I feel about other people’s money disappear. But as housing prices and stock prices drop I gotta believe that the main reason these values are falling is because they’re just not worth that much.
2008/10/05
I was on fire this weekend.
14 pages since Friday. Though, to be fair I salvaged maybe five of those from the previous draft, from huge blocks of text that I thought I’d have to cut entirely.
Still, I’m pretty happy with myself. I’m a whole lot closer to my goal: Draft 3.0 done by November.
But now I gotta stop and do some research.
2008/10/01
Swords and Suckery
I don’t have nearly the patience for world building that I used to. Back when I was a kid I wanted my fiction to be a transcendental experience. I wanted fantasy worlds that had nothing in common with the real one.
After nine and a half books of the Wheel of Time I don’t think I’ll ever read about another fake planet populated with the same elf-like beings on one side, orc-like beings on the other and humans in the middle.
I don’t know if this is because I’ve become more satisfied with the real world and my place in it or if I’ve become less satisfied with attempts at fictional world building. So much of it is just more of the same-old painted over with funny words.
