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On Long Absences and Things that Make Me Smile…
I realized the other day that I hadn’t posted here for round about five months. This made me a touch sad. Then, I realized why I hadn’t posted, and that made me happy. So, then, obviously, I needed to post about it. 😛 I’ve been writing a LOT. I did another class through Gotham. This helped me figure out why my prologue was making me annoyed enough that I wanted to hurl it’s digital pages into a tornado and watch them spin and then be crushed by a flying cow or tractor or something else large and heavy. That solved, things are flowing again and I think this may be…
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First Drafts
Over at Clarion’s Blog they’re writing about first drafts today. I thought that it was interesting that she basically says that her first draft is an info dump and her subsequent ones are where they all get whittled down. I work something like that, only I add to it first and then subtract. So, I thought I’d write about how I did my first drafts for the trilogy-turned-series when I first wrote them at the age of 12. Convention dictates that I should say that I start with an outline, my research, and/or character sketches. Unfortunately, I don’t. My life would be a LOT easier if I did. If you’re…
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On being a pastry…
I heard something a couple of weeks ago that somewhat irks me. Apparently, if you’re unmarried by the time you’re 30 it’s a problem. Specifically, men are untrustworthy at that point and women are no longer any good. The metaphor that’s used for this is the Christmas Cake. This is a cake that is given on the 25th of December and is no longer edible by the 30th. Apparently, I am this delicious looking confection and this is somehow a bad thing. Being 27, almost 28, and unmarried is seen as a bad thing. It bothers me that I catch flack from people for not being in a serious relationship…
