onefinemess | May 4, 2011
So, I think I can say that the UMoB was a success… why? Because I finally forced myself to write something in one of my books yesterday! I generated a solid 1000 words in a scene that I had no idea about ahead of time, but that squished out like stubborn playdough from one of [...]
onefinemess | April 20, 2011
OK, so I didn’t get to it yesterday, but I don’t see anyone complaining – so here’s the first bit. This is the first 5 pages or so, basically the section I submitted when agents requested the first five pages. It cuts right at a scene break, so that works. This seemed to do OK [...]
onefinemess | April 19, 2011
So, I’ve decided that I’ll take the plunge and post an excerpt from my first book later today (I have two finished, first books in two different series). Maybe tonight. Probably just the first chapter. It’s about 20 pages though, so I’ll probably wind up attaching a .pdf, since that much in one post would [...]
onefinemess | March 4, 2010
Especially considering there is nothing to lose. So, Bethany pointed this contest out to me, and I’ve been waffling around debating doing it or not doing it, but I really can’t see any reason not to. I do happen to have a “completed” (depending on how you specifically define the word*, but I’m gonna just [...]
onefinemess | February 10, 2010
As adults. As people burdened with sadness and life, muck-stained eyelids and hearts heavy with prescience and survivor’s guilt? I don’t know, but this is a damn cheerful sounding song isn’t it? OK this post actually has nothing to do with midlife angst, or with how late to the Phoenix party I am (isn’t that [...]
onefinemess | December 6, 2009
3: Elric of Melnibone (1st Elric book, been meaning to start this series for a literal decade) The Forge in the Forest, Winter of the World bk 2 (cheap used paperback to hold me over until I can find the HC at a good price) Storm Front – which thankfully has nothing to do with [...]
onefinemess | November 11, 2009
Finished! At 63ish K words. And I hate it now. It is, as Anne Lamott would say, a “shitty first draft” – which is OK. The problem is that at this point it’s also a shitty book. There are bits I like but I just don’t know…I was hoping the rest of the series would [...]
onefinemess | October 27, 2009
So, I’ve been working on my second “book” for about a month now. I’m 32k in, which should be about halfway. I’m also at chapter 15 out of my planned 20 on my outline. Although the final chapters will be denser than the beginning ones, it seems like I may need to add some things; [...]
onefinemess | October 20, 2009
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen this advice given to aspiring fiction writers: “Use only said, avoid alternates as much as you can.” So, you know, “John said x”, “Betty said y”, never “John groused x”, “Betty mumbled y”. I guess. I think it’s even in On Writing. Yet, I’ve also seen [...]
onefinemess | May 29, 2009
Seriously. It’s creepy. I’m sitting at about 90k words right now, with 4ish chapters left to write – and it’s the climactic battle and fallout – FUN stuff to write. Not that the rest hasn’t been fun, because it has. But still. This is THE. END. I can see that sun rising over the horizon, [...]
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