I have bad news. I’m not writing this book for you. I don’t know you. I have no idea what you’re looking for in your fiction. How could I ever predict it? How could I possibly reconcile your list of “musts” and “musnt’s” with those of every other potential reader? I can’t. I couldn’t. It … Continue reading
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Endings: counterintuitive
You need to know how it ends before you begin. I’ve had a lot of questions lately from friends and coworkers to the tune of “why are you starting your second book before you finish the first one?” (Book 2, codename Russian Guyovitch, will be my NaNo novel for this November.) Well, I’m trying to … Continue reading
Serious writer is serious
Here’s my serious writer face :D It’s very different from my non-serious writer face -_- I took a bit of a break in August to recharge, after assembling my betascript. It is the term I invented for the point at which my manuscript is just coherent enough that I can let my mother read it. … Continue reading
The Marleys were dead, to begin with
Off to a running start with a word count of 1,200. Yeah so, I decided about twelve hours before it began that I’m going to be participating in Camp NaNoWriMo for the month of June. To get all the rest of the crap written that is supposed to be in my first novel but is … Continue reading
Day 3
Today’s word count: 4179 Wrote a little over 1700 last night, which is not as high as I’d like, but still good. And content is now spawning its own content, which is even better. The material that Tailor promised would yield a chapter has become two, the other half being given over to Camille’s custody, … Continue reading
Aine Crabtree 