Category: writing

Finishing

Though I failed to meet my goal last year of getting better at finishing stories, I think I learned something from the year-end push.

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Looking forward in 2011

As I mentioned before my overall writing goal for 2010 didn’t work out so well: I actually finished fewer stories in 2010 than I did in 2009. I got distracted by my desire to let my writing loosen up and express a bit of humor. I love it when a story can get me to […]

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Looking back on 2010

My overall writing goal for 2010 was to get better at finishing things. And yet somehow, I didn’t quite say so when posted my goals here. Instead I listed the stories I wanted to finish. Of those, I finished and sold(!) the “Evolutionary Just-So” story, the story with “something wonderful hidden in it” held on […]

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Not looking good

I guess I’m about a third of the way through my crazy end of the world flying pig story. The chunks that look almost done are getting bigger, but I keep moving my own goal posts. Not looking good for finishing it by the end of the year. Week. Friday. Three days to go. Geez, […]

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Progress!

Another chunk of words went into the Done stack, so I felt like enough progress was happening to decide to put up a Progress bar. (or two) I took a little searching, but I found one I like, with a nice page for filling in your parameters. And of course, now that I look at […]

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Progress?

The log-jam is breaking on my current story, or at least I think so. I quit tinkering with the first paragraph last week. I may even decide that the second one is okay soon. Only — um, (switches away to check) lots more paragraphs to go! I’m still going to finish it by the end […]

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Getting near the end

I wish I was getting near the end of the story I’m currently working on, the crazy one, the one about the end of the world. And a flying pig. It’s been fun to play with it and think about it, and baffling to have it toy with me. For all I know, the story […]

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Mirror mode

The writing is going even more slowly than usual. I’m in smoothing out and polishing mode on the current story. I will try to let go before it has to become mirror shiny. The rejections aren’t even happening all that quickly: just one came in this last week to bounced out again like a ray […]

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