Writing about writing and reading
I have reached 20,000 words on the novella I've been writing since November of last year. Yeah, that's like, 2000 words per month. But despite the inchworm-like pace I've been maintaining on it, I still feel like reaching this milestone deserves some kind of cheering. However. If I keep up at this pace it won't …
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I'm listening to The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley. In a recent scene, a character is described falling into Jupiter. She is wearing a futuristic space suit that keeps her from burning up as she enters the atmosphere, or being crushed by the pressure right away. She falls, and falls, and falls, blacking out several …
I was keeping a journal. A notebook I would write in every day, a thought here and there, a list of events. I have trouble remembering things that happened more than a few weeks ago, so it's a nice help to my distracted brain to write them down. I was into it for a while. …
This week was the three-year anniversary of the day I finished the first draft of my first novella, Iapetus Shift. That's right, the same novella I just published last month. It took me about three months to type out the 30,000 word draft, but over two years of it sitting in my metaphorical drawer before I …
Why is it so difficult to type words? I know how to spell, I know how to string sentences together to express thoughts. So why do the words come so grudgingly? I think, for me, the problem is one of caring too much. I want the words to be perfect, to evoke exactly what I'm …
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