I'm almost finished with my new book and need to work on it steadily. I'd say this picture, minus the FAA, is about where I'm at. Or maybe FAA stands for Fulfilling Artistic Ambition. That definitely slows down the production of fiction designed to give people a few hours of fun... I have appointments galore [...]
I got up to 80,000 words on my current novel back in March or April. Since then I’ve been trying to turn this great mass of verbiage into a proper story with a likeable protagonist and an entertaining problem to solve … it turned out that I had written a lot but failed on those [...]
I've read bits and pieces of lots of books over the past month. I'm searching for the ways that other writers have solved problems like Point of View in a story, multiple characters in a scene (something I find terribly difficult), and how to provide necessary information to understand a story without either placing a [...]
Some time ago I was wandering through the website Ravelry. It’s a place where knitters and others can show off their work or make patterns available to others, either for free or for money. The patterns are incredibly varied and Ravelry is a nice place to go if you like to knit. On this occasion [...]
Arthritis is a metaphor for … something. Or maybe responses to it are the metaphor? I’ve been rereading, or at least skimming, books by Elizabeth Goudge, an English writer who died in 1974. One of her lesser known works is The Rosemary Tree. I was deliberately looking for it because I remembered the description of [...]
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