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Category Archives: That from a long way off look like flies
The Truth Is In Here, Too
Remember the X-Files? At the end of every episode, there was the production card, that little bit of surrealism that identifies the show as being created by a particular production company, in this case, Chris Carter’s Ten thirteen productions. I … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 9, An Interlude and a Revelation
The new novel is going quite well, so naturally I took a couple of weeks off to write a short story. This makes more sense than it would at first seem. When doing some rather detailed world building, i find … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 8: When the Fail Whale Calls Your Name
What do you do when the story goes off the rails like, as John Rogers put it, a burning train full of pantless clowns? You bury the dead and walk away, preferably in slow motion while ”Everyone” by Van Morrison plays … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 7: As You Know Bob
Over at io9, Charlie Jane Anders has a great post on the art of the Infodump. As you know, Bob, the infodump is one of those tools writers, especially those of us int he speculative field,[1] use to build worlds … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 6: Words, Words, Words
The single best writing day I ever had was when I was writing The Machine of the World. I wrote 7000 words in a span of 8 hours. I took a half an hour break for lunch but otherwise wrote … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 5: End of Line
The other night, I was in bed, half asleep (sans frog pajamas), when I solved the biggest problem the plot of my book had: the ending. Up until then, I had only a vague sort of general idea what would … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 4
So, where was I? Right! Chapter 9. Chapter 9 was giving me some trouble. We’re already about 8 pages into the story. We’ve met two of our main characters and established a premise and shown a bit of the world. … Continue reading
The Story Thus Far, Part 3
So, the other day I had a story-related epiphany– Wait. Let’s back up a sec, so I can make sure we’re all on the same page story mechanics-wise. When writing (or just telling) a story, it’s important to now what … Continue reading
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The Story Thus Far, Part 2
To pick up where we left off before being so rudely interrupted by the holidays… Wait, back up for a second. For the curious, here’s a picture of my workspace, from the Ceiling Cat perspective. This is where I do … Continue reading
The Story Thus Far
A long, long time ago, back when I was actually writing things on this blog, instead of just posting random cat pictures and promising to write things on this blog, I was working on a novel. This was so far … Continue reading