November is a long way away, but this part of the project came together quickly once I had a title change, so I thought I’d post it as evidence things are moving forward. ORIGINAL COVER OF TEN THOUSAND HOURS LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION! It felt kind of empty on the bottom until I drew […]
What comes after What Comes After Dessert and when will it be out? The plan is to release New Book on November 1, 2016. (This is, of course, subject to change due to unforeseen disasters or miracles that occur in the meantime, but that’s the date I’m aiming for.) It’s about lousy marriage proposals, the
“How did he call her a noxious weed and not get a drill bit in the larynx?” About two minutes ago, I finished handwriting the rough draft of New Book (code named The Duchess and the Enchilada). There is a LOT of work to be done (starting with typing 332 handwritten pages…), but it is
It’s difficult to learn from excellent writing because excellent writing sucks you into the story and feels effortless and magical while you’re reading. Bad writing is an undervalued teaching tool. When you come across writing you hate, it screams at you and beats you about the head with its wrongness. If you systematically eliminate all
Subjects touched upon herein: babies, exes, disappointment, learning experiences, and the interdimensional hell portal that is life. No spoiler alert because no spoilers.
I’m going to do this whole sequence in one shot, since most of the chapters in it are short. Subjects touched upon herein: clone wars, sorcery, lemon nipples, damn dirty apes, echoes, foreshadowing, and stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
I was just banned from a writing forum for insinuating explicitly stating its poobah was giving shitty writing advice, so I’m going to interrupt your regularly scheduled program for this special announcement. “The problem with your first page is there’s no inciting incident” is WRONG. Unless your goal is to write a terrible action movie,
This might actually be brief. Structurally, nothing fancy happens in the middle of the middle, and I prematurely covered some of the content that otherwise would have gone here. Subjects touched upon herein: boys are can be jerks, foreshadowing, stage-2 gardening, and last-minute inflation. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
Subjects touched upon herein: the talking heads, this is 0.000035% less a cursing book, professional jargon, look at somebody being all well-adjusted (in one regard), fatal flaws, foreshadowing, and stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
Subjects touched upon herein: Act II, point of view, bare naked old ladies covered in tomato sauce, professional jargon, echoes, foreshadowing, and stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!