New: 5,790
Total: 28,547
Random bit of text: "Thomas will do what's right for his family."
"News flash, I am his family."
"Yes, sometimes people make mistakes that just won't go away."
Research: Electromagnetic phenomenon, Egyptian history/mythology, Website design
Reading: Urban Shaman - CE Murphy
Watching: nothing, my cable box sucks
40% plus my never-ending pile of pages to be typed. Damn me and my writing longhand.
I had a plot crisis this week. I couldn't stop waffling between whether my choices for the plot were contrite and convenient or if the were necessary for the story. After much whining to Oliver talking it out with Oliver, I have decided it is necessary. Though I am still wracking my brain for another option to fulfill the necessary and be more...well, just more.
Last night I began coding a website for myself so that when I start querying agents I will have a site up for them to look at if they google me/read the first 10 pages on if they don't allow them to be included with the query. It looks pretty good for being coded by me, and is well over half done now. If nothing screws up horribly when I set up the hosting and get it posted I will be rather satisfied with it. At least as a placeholder until I sell my book someday and have one designed for me with my cover art. Now if only I could manage to convert the CSS to something usable for my blogs. Stupid lack of ability in CSS. Must fix that. Perhaps I'll save the Kim Harrison, CE Murphy, PC/Kristen Cast, and Caitlin Kittredge books I'm buying tomorrow whenever I wake up today as a reward for learning enough CSS to fix the few site problems I'm having and setup the blog. Nah. I want to read them far too badly for that.
Yawn. Must go sleep now so I can wake up early and knock out my WIP pages for the day so I can do some work on the couple of short stories I'm writing/fixing up. I figured I might as well submit them to a couple of mags. Publishing credits/SFWA membership to tack onto the bottom of my query couldn't hurt, so it's worth giving it a try.
Friday, March 7, 2008
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Long hand? Is that how you do all your writing, or just some of the time?
When you edit, do you print it out?
I tend to write the vast majority of my stuff long hand for the first draft. Then I do a rough edit when I type it. That edit is by no means extensive, typos, word choice, occasional sentence structure. When I do extensive edits I print it out and then type in my changes.
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