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Archive for January, 2009

“Yeah, I saw that in 6 music videos and a Gap ad.”

Posted in rant, what not to do, tagged , on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what SJP said in “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, but if you know what I’m talking about then you know that it’s more about how she said it and that what she was saying was: dude, that dance move is so played.
So I’m talking about cliches.  God do I have [...]

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Progress report: cards

Posted in books, craft books, ideas, progress update, tools, writing, tagged , , , on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When last I was here I talked about getting into the habit of using index cards– for quick notes, for organizing thoughts, and eventually for getting visual feel for a story.  Since I’ve got a lot of stuff in my head right now, I set a goal for 10 cards a day.
10 cards has been [...]

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Carding-a beginning to ordering woolly thoughts?

Posted in goals, ideas, writing, tagged , , on January 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

But lately I’ve been thinking about it differently. My current story world has a LOT of different people coming and going. And they tend to come and go the most when I’m not by my handy-dandy electronic notebook. So I’ve been having some new thoughts about jotting down scenes and other story thoughts on index cards…

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Grade A Top Choice Meat

Posted in writing, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No, Glen, not a hot waitress, not a flight attendent.
Today I’ve been thinking about choices characters make.
I’m currently planning through a story I refer to as TC.  On another day I’ll probably tell you some of the recent breakthroughs I’ve had on it.  I’ve got characters, I’ve got a loosely outlined plot, I’ve got the [...]

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You lost me.

Posted in what not to do, tagged , , on January 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I LOVE my library’s online audiobook program.  I just wish they had MORE.  For the most part, everything you want to read is wait-listed.  Today I found myself without a book to listen to while I worked on my sewing stuff, and so I browse the available titles in Romance.
Of course, when the website says [...]

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All talk; no action…

Posted in writing on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Today I’m thinking about what happens in scenes.
A few days ago I was writing a loose outline.  It’s a story I’ve been putting together that’s not near ready for actually being written, but I was just writing down the general thinks I knew happened or needed to happen in the best kind of order I [...]

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