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Sep
9
No Rules. Just Write.
This is a tomato hornworm that I found on my front step the other day. It was really big. Like the size of my index finger (girth and length). They’re not supposed to be brown with orange stripes – they’re supposed to be green with white stripes. I did a little research and found out that it either had a horrible disease. (whee) or that it was just a genetic mutation – i.e. a less common brown form. In either case, I captured it in a jar and the kids and I watched it wiggle about for a bit and then we let it go. Yes, it’s a pest bug – but I don’t grow tomatoes, so I don’t really care. Which is sort of how I feel about writing rules. (Nice segue-way, huh?) After yesterday’s LJ interview, I did have a few questions posed to me off-line, and one of them…
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Sep
2
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back…
One of the fun things about writing is backtracking. Not really. And this isn’t a case of backtracking so much as reworking. Although I had about 40 k written of book 2 some time last year, a good deal of it has needed to be revamped a bit to fit with all the changes in book 1. Which is fine, except that for every 1000 words I seem to write, I get stuck yanking out about 500 somewhere else. The good news is that some of those yanked bits will be able to be put back in a little later on. The better news is that I’m getting to the end of the old stuff, so pretty soon it should nearly all be new stuff. It’s just a little frustrating to be busting my hump to write a minimum of 1500 – 2000 words a day, just to watch the…
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Jun
25
Using What You Have aka Making Do
Connor made me take a picture of this yesterday. And I did – not only because it seemed like a good blog topic, but also because I giggle madly every time I look at it. Never mind it’s not even *his* Transformer. Never mind that said Transformer’s head is probably somewhere in the off-roading bowels of the mud in some distant field. Point is, said Transformer needed a head, so lego man got an upgrade. I find it very interesting that kid will usually make do with something, even if it’s not exactly right or perfect. In the interest of saving the universe, of course. Writers often do this too. Or at least I do. I’m not a huge researcher. Unless the plot hinges around a particular detail that *really* has be accurate *right* this second, I have a big tendency just to toss something in as a place holder.…
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