A speaker tells a listener what someone did to get what he wanted and why.
John Truby’s definition of a story, from The Anatomy of Story
anyone know of good generic (i.e. not fanfic smut) erotica blogs I could submit to?
Much ado about tools
It’s been like an episode of the as-of-yet-nonexistent reality show “Device Swap” around here this weekend! Jake graciously bestowed his laptop upon me, saying that while he’d love to keep it, I need it right now between starting up my consulting side business and writing so much. So now, with this beautiful Apple keyboard that truly compels me to type, I’m starting my editing of A God Grown Old. Slowly but surely I’m replacing all of the spots where I’d gotten lazy or couldn’t find an old reference and had to put questions marks in brackets, and going through my “Rough Draft 1” copy on my Kindle to find the highlights I’d made for awkward phrasing or concepts I need to look at again.
And seriously, this computer is awesome. I can type so fast on it. Between this generous gift and the inspiration that Bioshock Infinite has been, I should be producing volumes of work in no time…
Holy Fuckin’!
WOW! I cannot believe the overwhelming number of new followers I’ve gained today – I went from 21 to 68 in a matter of hours! I’m SO excited that you all are here and that I get to write for you… I will do my best not to disappoint! 🙂
Please please drop a request in the ask box if you have any special ideas you’d like to see me write about. This project got started as a daily treat for my fiance and he is still the one I write for first, but he loves to read about a variety of smutty topics, so share your favorite fantasies and I’ll accommodate as many as I can.
Thank you once more for following, and welcome to Fantasy Digest!
what self-help book (serious or ridiculous) do you always wish existed in your life, but have yet to find?
…speaking of ideas, anyone want one? I’ll give them away, but only if you promise to make something with them.
I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Four weeks
tomorrow marks four weeks since I finished A God Grown Old. couple that with the fact that there are significant chunks of the novel I can’t recall offhand, and I think it’s time to start reading it on my Kindle.
on the advice of Jill, my writing partner in 50 Unexplainable Stories and Other Tales, I’m going to read it once through just as a reader. I may jot down some notes, but for the most part I’m just concentrating on how the story feels. (not the feels. those do exist though. I did cry writing at least two of the scenes.) thank goodness for Kindle, or else I would be so tempted to make wording changes…
Softly sighing
well, my lovelies, it’s happened. on Saturday (December 29), I finished the first draft of A God Grown Old. I immediately saved it as a PDF and converted it for my Kindle, then left it alone.
because this phase is about resting.
this phase is about falling asleep on an idea. about softly sighing into the dark about the inconsistencies and listening for the answers in your imagination. about making peace with your flaws and your novel’s flaws. this phase is for finding the joyous spark of research and brainstorming again, for seeking out those first readers, for facing the reality of what comes next.
I don’t know how I’ll do, chopping up my baby. she’s short already (just over 65k words) and in my heart, she’s complete. but she’s not. A God Grown Old has much growing to do before it has aged into something I can proudly show the world.
for now, I rest.
(and by rest I mean start brainstorming and researching the next novel! which is as of yet untitled but will appeal to fans of science fiction, smut, and philosophy.)