Steve and I are both under the weather and have a bad case of the blah’s. I’ve tried to write a bit on the novel but it’s pretty pathetic. Steve has a fever so perhaps we are sick. ♥♥♥ Writing in Public blog streak… Day 21 — Short Fiction: 00 new words. — Novel-Length fiction:…
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Writing in Public Day 20 Embodied Narratives
I attended a workshop today called The Embodied Narrative, which focused on embracing the non-verbal qualities of the experience of being a body and transforming those into words. I’m very pleased with the workshop. We entered through an art gallery into a small section that had been transformed in to an inviting nest with a…
Writing in Public – Day 19
Today I worked on chapter 3 of the primary novel, but I didn’t end up with much at all. I have come up to the conflict with the pirates and I don’t know how they get to the end of it. (Though I do know the end.) Chapters Four and Five are both written but…
Writing in Public – Day 18
I finished chapter 2 of my primary novel and I’m pretty pleased with it. This chapter was previously written from the viewpoint of Rueben’s wife, who I later decided wouldn’t be a viewpoint character. Then it was written from Rueben’s perspective. That still didn’t work because the person who had the most to gain or…
Writing in Public – Day 17 Doubts and Determination
I saw an old friend and co-worker at Bill’s novel writing class last night. She looked fantastic! When I left the company, she looked exhausted and crumpled into herself. I worried about her and about all of the people I was leaving because the work environment was so hard and did so much damage to…
Writing in Public – Day 16
I went to Bill’s Novel Writing Class today. It’s really quite good. Today he covered story structure, so that wasn’t quite as new to me. Though he said one thing that struck me. The inciting incident is something that happens to your character. We also did two five-minute sprints, which gave me the basic words…
Writing in Public – Day 15
Every time I sat down to write today I thought of something that needed to be cleaned. My house is now much cleaner. I worked on adding words to a time travel short story that had been shelved for a while. It has taken a darker tone than one would expect for a short story…
Writing in Public – Day 14 The Septuagint and Pharos Island
It’s been a productive weekend in general but not with writing in specific. I continue to eat well and maintain my streak, so that is good. I ran into an interesting note by Philo discussing the creation of the Septuagint. The Septuagint is the name for the earliest translation of the Torah into Greek, which…
Writing in Public – Day 13 Backpacking and Reading
Today, I’m steering you to another writer friend with a great piece of flash fiction. This story is called Haunted Mansions Are Never Wheelchair Accessible by Justin Siebert. It’s a great story and I think you will like it. It has an engaging and unusual protagonist and a thought-provoking ending. The link takes you to a…
Writing in Public – Day 12 Lotus Eaters Anonymous, Witchmark, Novel Writing
Today is a good day. As noted, 4thewords is back to working and I’m feeling a bit less fraught. One of my favorite books of this year, Witchmark, by C.L. Polk was just featured by the New York Times as one of the best new fantasy novels of the year. I recommend that you check…