Thoughts of virtue, sacrifice, and vows of poverty have been hanging about lately, and while I read about them in a context that is not about writing, I am certainly capable of making that leap. For the moment I'm interested in sacrifice... and I'll get to the point in a roundabout way. One of my …
When is prolific prolific?
I heard an interview with Joyce Carol Oates and she said something along the lines of how she didn't see herself as prolific. She really didn't think she wrote that much. I wanted to reach through my headphones and shake her. She must think the rest of us are lazy bums. Just goes to show …
Avoiding Reality
This NaNo novel (currently at 43k!) is taking something of a fairy tale turn. I blame the websites Endicott Studio and In the Labyrinth. Well, I can never write a story straight--meaning that I can't keep everything in the real world. Odd things wind their way into my stories and I can't take them out …
Plot vs Friends
What to do when your plot doesn't match the politics/beliefs/values of your friends? This had not occured to me until one day a friend commented on a book I was working on and I realized that she was worried that a character might act in a way that could send the wrong signal to certain …
So, how far did you go with your blog last night?
I came across this post at Wish Jar Journal, and her points are worth considering. Why blog and how far should it go? What is gained from this? Then again, what is gained from writing a book and getting it published? (I mean in a nonpaycheck sort of way.) How is this kind of expression …
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Writing as a Disease
This blogging everyday nonsense is starting to get to me. I can't even think today. I've been sick and I suspect my body is telling me, "Stop it already!" Sometimes when I think about the amount of writing I've been doing this past year, these lyrics come to mind-- You're like a disease without any …
You know you spend too much time staring at a computer when…
My dreams are starting to look like they're running on a computer screen--complete with underlined blue bits. That can't be good.
Little Demon
Jealousy. That little fire-spitting demon curled up warm and sharp in a corner of the brain. I try to keep it in a cage--a pretty one so it won't get restless too quickly--but it knows how to pick the lock. Free, it scampers around and chews its way through the more sensible emotions. And it …
Nice Girl Syndrome
How far can your imagination take you? Sometimes I creep myself out with what I've written and I can barely read my own scene. A dread churns in my stomach and I peer at my manuscript as if I'm watching a horror movie. I've actually closed one eye and squinted out the other. And it …
Cinderella Stays Past Midnight…
Yes, it will have been worth it after all if Cinderella had stayed at the ball. --Ellen Kushner --Cinderella Sonata I love that. No matter what story you tell, there is always a new way to look at it, another side to the story, one more what if... Cinderella might stay and be rejected in …
Marta Bacon 