I admire writers who can skip around and write scenes ahead in their stories, but I very much cannot. If I pre-write a scene that happens in the narrative, by the time I’ve gotten there the specifics have almost always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged writing
David: I write likeChuck Palahniuk I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Mordax I write likeStephen King I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I didn’t really believe it, so I ran[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been on quite a whimsical mood lately, and I decided to write a fairy tale. I’ve also been on a doll kick, so I used that as a premise, and penned this tale. I think it might have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got out the figurative cat-o-nine-tails and sent out another round of rejection bait agent queries for the novel. Teetering on the edge of just putting the damned thing up online, but didn’t want to do so without trying at least[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, okay. Fine. Fine. I give up. We’ll do it *your* way.
When I was in high school, and ideas for stories came faster than I could write them down, I tended to attribute the ones that came the most easily as coming from something outside of myself. These days I no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wrote this a couple of nights ago for /x/ and I was going to post it here, but LJ was being a bastard. This one is drabble-sized. I have another one (much longer) that I may post at some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So Mordax and I were accepted as a member in the SCP Foundation. For those of you who are unfamiliar, SCP is a collaborative horror writing project whose main thrust is to catalogue the, generally hideously dangerous and beyond true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You guys know I’m not a "NaNo" person; I respect it, think its a cool idea, and have a bunch of friends who do it, but it’s not my style. On the other hand, I do have a wicked new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first 2 chapters of my novel for those who would like to see if its ‘too smart’ or ‘not marketable’. Its an escapist YA urban fantasy with reincarnation themes. This is the 3rd draft. http://otakukin.atspace.com/valuthed2.doc (this post is limited[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, I finally got a response from the agent who sold Twilight. It was a rejection letter. I think that says it all. When you’re not as good as ‘Twilight’. Anyone reading this know a quick, painless way of killing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Query letter scares David. David is putting off writing query letter. David is ashamed. –guess who David
2nd draft of the novel is done.
Arrrgh. I’m getting so damned frustrated. My sixth magazine rejection on my short story. I just don’t understand. well, hell, I’ve heard of some really famous authors being rejected again and again before they finally got published. The only solution[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NEW RECORD! 12,000 words in one day yesterday! w00t! That brings the total on my novel up to 46k so far.
I broke a personal record yesterday. 9.5 thousand words in one day on my new novel. My previous record had 8k while working of Jabberwocky for Agents: The Series.
Well, I wasn’t sure what to post this morning before, but now I know! I just found out that my drabble (the same one I posted a couple days ago) won the weekly contest at digimondrabbles. That makes me feel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…