It’s that time of year again. Well, I say “again,” but this is only the second year I’ve participated in National Novel Writing Month. Last year marked the beginning of when I got serious about writing this book series – truthfully I didn’t have a lot of plot structure and character development to go on. … Continue reading
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weekend writing
This Saturday will mark the beginning of what I hope to make into a weekly habit – getting out of the house to write. I had originally thought to do it at the library, but realized that they would likely frown on beverages there, and I have to have coffee or tea. Then it hit … Continue reading
breaking the silence
Rhys has been talking to me lately, courtesy of listening to a lot of MuteMath. For the last few months, when I’m driving around listening to music, imagining things, the people who move, the people whose faces I’ve seen, have mostly been Camille, Mac, Hayley, Kei, and Jul. But in the past week or so … Continue reading
chaos pages
The primordial word soup I was talking about a couple posts ago has a name – chaos pages. This is my new way of sketching out a scene. It feels really right. Right now I’m working on chaos pages for the opening of R+S. I don’t want to introduce too many characters too quickly, but … Continue reading
little did he know
a post on subtlety Subtlety in prose is a fine balance of two things – beauty, and respect for the intelligence of your readers. When you reveal things, you want them to feel surprising, but also correct. That sounds spectacularly daunting to me, but it’s something I want to attempt. The effect of finding out … Continue reading
Aine Crabtree 