Day: June 29, 2011

Codslip Exchange

1,500 words replaced by 1,500 new ones. And this time, they sound right; Friendly Fire is on its way. Too late in the evening now for more writing; turning in. To be off to a flying start at my next sitting, I just did a quick editing-and-outlining sweep. I found myself marking the fifth paragraph […]

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Stop. Rewind. Record.

You write, you learn. Today I learned what it means to really write a first draft. Two weeks ago, I wrote the first 900 words of a new story, targeted for the second Machine of Death anthology. Two scenes written, but neither of them really resonated with me for what I was trying to achieve. […]

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