Smart Advice from Smart People
For those who will find it interesting…
Nancy Kress on writing a paragraph, which proves a nice glimpse of work-process-in-action.
PeterMBall
24/04/2009
Day: April 24, 2009
Works in Progress
Claw Update
Claw Draft Projected Total: 25000 Total Words to Date: 16,645 Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period: 2,097 Deadline: April 30th Chapter Eight is done. My plans for tomorrow have just been cancelled, so I’m thinking I may try and push for the end of the draft instead. With luck, tomorrow night’s update will involve the word “Finished” somewhere. In other writing news: Got another story ready to send out, but can’t figure out the right title for it; started making notes for the story Jason Fischer set as part of the Dancing Monkey challenge; am now just two active submissions away from getting my number-of-stories-circulating total back into double digits for the first time in 6 months.
PeterMBall
24/04/2009
Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption
Dancing Monkey One: Watch The Middleman, you bastards.
A steady trickle of blog topics rolling in response to my offer to be a Dancing Monkey this week (though most come, as most of my comments do, through the livejournal feed). Pushes my thoughts in interesting directions, it does, with enough random writerly nonsense included to keep me going for a while. Logically they should happen in order, but I’m going to start with something relatively easy (because it’ll feed into a couple of other topics folks have suggested). To whit, Adam demanded “a public rave about the awesomeness of The Middleman.” This I can do, with bells on and a cherry on top. I can’t, apparently, do it without swearing and unleashing hate upon the world. Consider yourselves warned. My rave starts thusly: Go and watch The Middleman in whatever form that’s available, you fuckers, because the fact that they’ve only made one season of this show makes me cry. You should know before I go any further that I’m not a fan
PeterMBall
24/04/2009
Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption
Friday Youtubery
One of those days where I changed my mind at the last minute, and thus shot myself in the foot when it came to actually having something to say about it. What needs to be said about the Sisters of Mercy apart from “sometimes you just need go get your goth on”?
PeterMBall
24/04/2009
