NaNoWriMo

Wow I am far behind on this. Tipping the scales at near 3K words on my NaNoWriMo Novel. I guess one thing that has been stopping me is that I view what I write as my Brain Baby, My “I’ll make a million doing this” and become famous beyond words, I’ll be a best seller [...]

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It’s Over.. Or is it?

Well December First, 2008 came and went, and if you are like me, you did not win the National Novel Writers Month challenge, however if you took part in it you were gifted with the grace to have read some of the most inspirational e-mails that you could have hoped to receive while trying to [...]

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Let’s Roll!

As it so often happens, life catches up with us and we have to move on a bit. In this case I have to just move as such the blog will be a bit slow. Not to mention that in 10 days all I have written is a meager 2006 words for my story and [...]

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Distractions: During NaNoWriMo

So I am sitting here, I have two Word programs open, one with what I plan to be the greatest master piece of writing ever to exist, also known as my NaNoWriMo novel that seems to have become stunted at the first thousand or so words. I also have a nice MMO running in the [...]

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And We’re Off!

Ok, Like any race, people come bolting out of the starting gate with yells and cheers and all that. Even the Marathon has those first 200 steps when people all run going “yay!” and what have you. I look at this, just like a Marathon, sure we all might hit the pavement, or road or [...]

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Aaaaahhhhhh Last Day!

Now this is the lovely time right between thought and action. Normally and lovingly refered to the “scared out of your wits” time. :: Slaps You on the Back :: Good Luck!

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2 Days Till Show Time!

There you sit, just getting the fingers warmed up and ready to work out ideas. Last Month you took a dare that sounded easy, it was something like 10,000 words in 25 seconds and now the moment of truth hits you… you have exactly 2 days before the whole thing goes down and you have [...]

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Why are you not giving me ideas? Why just telling me to write?

In this front, I’ll have to concede this point. You are correct, I am not giving you ideas or ways to solve your plot issues. I am not telling you how to overcome the problems you might face dealing with that perfect persona you have developed, or how to write the rules of magic. I [...]

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Let’s Talk MAGIC!

From quasi-arcane incantations to nano-bots, this thing called “Magic” has its place in fiction from Fantasy to Sci-Fi. But endlessly we ask the same question “What is Magic?” Does magic need rules to follow? Does magic break the rules? I suppose we could always ask hard questions like: “What are the rules to begin with?” [...]

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Critic’s.

Many of us have heard the joke “Those who can – Do, those who can’t – teach” However have you ever noticed that those that can do neither are Critic’s. In truth writing is a very difficult thing to pull off correctly and it is well known that Fame invites criticism. It also seems that [...]

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