February, 2010

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Here and There

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Wrote 500 words on Wednesday.
This week while exercising I read This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley. Standard Advice, but strangely encouraging.
Spent a lot of time working on the website for Redstone Science Fiction.
Surprised I haven’t seen The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot before.
More useful than Mosley’s Book: Ten rules for writing fiction in the Guardian referencing Elmore Leonard and several others, including Michael Moorcock.

The 50th post on The Blog at GateTree. Cool.

Brainstorm

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I have gathered so many ideas and factors to include in my story that it may be too much. Should I stick to a story? Should I make this a longer piece? Am I actually going to make it happen?

I get so distracted at my computer, I’m beginning to think I would do better to write by hand. I broke my glasses a couple of weeks ago & finally got in to optometrist this week. While stuck in exam rooms, I lifted pen and paper and was able to crank out several ideas. It may be that home is simply too distracting. We’ve got rooms filled with storage that I think I’m going to have to clean out to try and create a separate space.

Nearly all my stories are submitted. I may actually have a chance with a couple.

Things are moving along with Redstone Science Fiction. I’m going to try out using WordPress first. I’ve downloaded several templates and I’m going to set it up at first with some pre-1923 public domain stories so I can go ahead and set up links and pages.

School is going fine, I may be a little behind, but that’s normal and AP Economics is much improved this time through. Exercise is going great, I feel much better, but the constant alternation of rain & bitter cold can end at any time..