Showing posts 1 to 10 labeled Process (18 total)
Workspaces (November 18th, 2012 - No comments)
My semi-professional workplace is pretty awesome. I work in an old house in the low-traffic eye of campus that has been converted into a casual office building. The family room is the secretary's reception area, the living room has been reconfigured for seminars and conferences, the upstairs den makes a cozy computer lab, and the attic has a suite of tiny offices for graduate students... More >>
Historical Novels and Contemporary Readers (July 3rd, 2012 - No comments)
I haven't touched my manuscript for WIP-B in a few days. Instead, I've had my nose stuck in my used library copy of Daily Life in Victorian England, submerging myself in the details of the period and reevaluating my first draft for any historical inaccuracies... More >>
Critiquing: The Necessary Evil (June 15th, 2012 - No comments)
Progress has stalled on WIP-B for a while now. It's not that I waste my days painting my nails and watching Korean dramas (well, not all of my days) but my heart just hasn't been in it. Yes, yes, flimsy excuses—writing is work, after all... More >>
Method Writing (May 8th, 2012 - No comments)
Well, I've done it again. I added another chapter to WIP-B and pushed the eventual completion down a week or two. The difficulty isn't in the increased word count. I just broke off a third of a too-ambitious chapter to turn it into a half of another, so I really only added one sequence... More >>
Reading Like A Reader (April 17th, 2012 - 2 comments)
Yesterday I was not in a writing mood. Dealing with a finicky decades-old air conditioner, unusable outsourced systems for filing my state taxes, and the early arrival of my monthly "friend" simultaneously tends to kill the creative impulse... More >>
Book Juggling (April 11th, 2012 - 1 comment)
As you can see from the pretty bars to the right, I now have three WIPs going at once. WIP-A is a modern politically charged retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" (like Bubbles Pop but in the third person, with bankers and Marxists)... More >>
Paralyzed by Perfection (March 24th, 2012 - 1 comment)
"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb... More >>
A Tactical Advance in the Opposite Direction (March 12th, 2012 - 2 comments)
As you can see by the pretty progress bar I put there on the right, my WIP(B) is inching along painfully. For a stretch last week, it was moving so slowly that I spent more time crying on the bed that I'm the world's worst writer and I'll never amount to anything than I did actively trying to change those facts (that, and procrastinating by making pretty progress bars)... More >>
Impatience (February 21st, 2012 - 1 comment)
Every night I wish that I would wake up the next morning and have the magical ability to make my books write themselves. I would simply stare at my computer screen intensely, like a television superhero—maybe wiggle my nose or point my finger at my temple for good measure—and the perfect words to express my ideas would materialize on-screen... More >>
The Destructive Force of "Work" (January 4th, 2012 - 1 comment)
When I was in my K-12 years, my father worked for firms that specialized in insurance law. He didn't talk much about his profession, but I remember two key traits about it: first, he regularly wrote and printed out a ton of paper... More >>