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November 18, 2006 by graham
Slacking
Okay, I confess, I’ve not been much with the writing lately. Not because of lack of time – I’ve had plenty – more because of a lack of motivation. I’m sick of the sight of the novel formerly known as Muse. I’ve spent most of November working on writing an outline of the current plot [...]Archive
October 29, 2006 by graham
For the sake of argument, morning ends at 1:30pm, okay?
333 / 333 (100.0%) Done. And now onto other things.Archive
October 28, 2006 by graham
Twenty
313 / 333 (94.0%) I’m procrastinating, but I think I’m allowed to procrastinate just a little. I have but twenty pages of manuscript left before the first pass edits are done on the project-formerly-known-as-Muse (let’s just call it The Novel and have done with it; I haven’t got a damn clue what title I’m actually [...]Archive
October 18, 2006 by graham
When the muse doesn’t come, sing
The muse is, rather ironically, ignoring me tonight. Not in the sense that I’m suffering from what I’ve rather tediously referred to in the past as writer’s block; more accurately in the sense that I can’t seem to find any real desire to work on the Muse manuscript this evening. It’s probably because I got [...]Archive
October 17, 2006 by graham
Clicking along on bright rails
252 / 333 (75.7%) Just eighty-one pages to go. Well, probably. I can’t remember whether or not, somewhere in those eighty-one pages, I’ve written a message in caps to myself, telling me that I need to fill a bit in. In fact, I’ve just come across one such note at the end of page 252, [...]Archive
October 11, 2006 by graham
One of the good bits
222 / 333 (66.7%) After last night, when I did no editing whatsoever because I was, to put it mildly, in a blue funk, tonight came as a pleasant surprise. Tonight I got to edit one of the really good bits, one of those bits that doesn’t need a lot of editing because it’s almost [...]Archive
September 23, 2006 by graham
The Glue
15 / 333 (4.5%) Someone has poured glue into my head. Whoever they are, I wish they hadn’t, but it’s here to stay for a while and it does not, let me tell you, make life any easier. Editing is out for the time being. I managed to get through two pages of Muse before [...]Archive
September 11, 2006 by graham
Back to the beginning
11 / 333 (3.3%) Oh well. At least I’ve started, which is something. The editing was more brutal than the last time, I think. I was more willing to cut the bits that made it wordy, and better still the bits that made it boring. I’m still afraid that I’m going to cut out a [...]Archive
September 9, 2006 by graham