Hey, folks. I could use a little cheering squad for this last novel revision. If you’d be willing to read chapters as I revise them (about 1-2 / day, hopefully, for about 2-3 weeks), and send me back only positive notes (concrete details great, “I loved it when…” but also just ‘go go go’ also […]
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Well, it’s going to take a few days to switch over to my ‘get up and start revising the novel at 5 a.m.’ plan, clearly. I did set an alarm for 5, but when it went off, I set another for 5:30, and when that went off, I set another for 6. Discipline, tough. I
Okay. So, apologies for the geeky in-depth writing stuff, there’s probably going to be lot of it for the next month, will try to intercut with flower and food photos, I promise. I went back into the novel again, starting with re-reading the crit notes from the last critique group meeting. Lots of good stuff.
Reading through crit notes from last meeting with the Acorns. (Our local writing group — from little acorns grow mighty oaks, we live in Oak Park, ha ha). I am sometimes unnecessarily cryptic in my note-taking. Like this one: ” – her arc – sorry, dad, but.” I mean — what was that supposed to
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Look, I actually opened the novel file for “Liminal Space”! Progress. (Please praise me. I think I’m going to need a lot of praise in the next few days to get me to actually push past the anxiety and start working on this thing again.)
I was talking to my therapist yesterday, and I came on the call asking if she had any tricks for avoidance, because I’ve been wanting to work on two novels for six months and haven’t touched them. Every day, I think about them, and then don’t touch them. I do ALL THE OTHER THINGS instead.
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“Growing up with games was sort of my pathway to self exploration. Building my own competence. Role-playing allows you to explore identities that are not your own, but also to maybe form your identity better, with less of the fear that you’re gonna be judged because you’re not playing yourself, you’re playing a character and
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So, I’m starting to build out the Portolan Project a little more for the SLF, thinking through what it would look like if I used the interviews we’ve done (http://speculativeliterature.org/portolan-project/) as cores for free online learning modules in creative writing and lit. I’m planning to take one of the interviews on Monday (maybe Paolo Bacigalupi
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I got a little behind in posting these, so you’re getting three in a row — yesterday, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, today, Vida Cruz, tomorrow Ajit George and S.B. Divya. “Surreal, you know? A lot happens in one week [at Writers of the Future]; there was a lot of good stuff. And there was also a lot
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Yesterday I somehow ended up doing a lot of exercise — morning exercise walk, then afternoon 20-minute medium-intensity Supernatural session in VR, then evening 30-minute lap swim, and I think that all tired me out enough that I really crashed into bed at 10:30…and as a result, forgot to take the med that helps keep
