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Writing and reviewing happened this week. I had three pieces to review for writing groups that meet this weekend. I enjoy providing feedback on others’ work. It’s like a puzzle to solve, trying to figure out what the […]
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After last week’s focus on research—timetables, maps, photographs—I was ready to write this week. Notes on the next scene in the WIP had been drafted months ago. This week I worked on finishing this scene, which opens the […]
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Much of this week’s writing time was consumed with research. For the current WIP novel, I needed certain physical locations for key parts of the action. For example: a summer house on a lake in northern New England […]
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A friend and I made an agreement to check in with each other weekly about the progress on our writing progress. We both have long-form books that we struggle to find time for amid jobs and other things […]
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For my first foray into chatty AI, I asked Bard (Google’s Chatbot): Write a short, humorous story about a detective who is also a talking parrot. A woman comes to the parrot to ask him to find her […]
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After working through the beta readers’ comments on the first draft, I solicited another review from someone who hadn’t seen the manuscript before. This isn’t a beta reader exactly. Is there such a thing as a gamma-reader? The […]
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And now for vampire lingo… Vampires are obsessed with eternal life and their elitism, in that they have attained immortal life, and they believe that this is because they somehow deserve it. After all, not everyone who’s bitten […]
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Werewolves love and hate the moon. She gives them freedom on their Night, but rules their lives, even when it’s not the Night. She can be a cruel mistress. She gives them amazing strength and magical abilities (like […]
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I was challenged by my sharp-eyed editor to reconsider how vampires and werewolves describe themselves and their world. It would be more intriguing, she said, if the werewolves and vampires have their own lingo such that it takes […]
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I remember going to a lecture by Neil Gaiman in 2017 in which he said (I’m paraphrasing) that the way to write is to start writing, and don’t stop, don’t fix, just keep going until it’s done. The […]
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