I'm in the mood to destroy words! I think I'd better not, though, until at least a couple other people tell me the targeted words are bad. Otherwise I might just erase everything...
What to ask…
I'm writing a list of questions to ask people who read my novella... and it is making me think a bit more about what I was actually trying to achieve by writing the thing... Maybe I should have thought about this before writing it, but that's just not how I do things!
The Observer second draft is finished!
I have finished a first pass through of my novella, and fixed all the problems I had highlighted! Now to read it again and find a whole new slew of them (I've already found a few, sigh.) I know it will never be 'done.' It will only ever be 'good enough.' But it is still …
First story of the year
Not even out of the first week. A good sign! Damn it feels good to be a writer. Creation has been slowed due to all the editing I've been doing, so it is a much needed brain flexing to actually work on something new. Now, back to the grind...
Oh my God the dictionary!
I started reading it... and am wondering why I never did this before. It's like walking through a treasure-filled cavern and snatching up any glinting piece that pulls my eye. So many words! I wish I had a randomized version of the dictionary so that all my new words wouldn't start with A, but here …
Jonas David 