Monthly Archives: February 2006
Making Time to Write
A making time to write two-fer: JA Konrath on relaxing activities to give up and Shadawyn on getting mental work done throughout the day. I don’t think Mr. Konrath is actually suggesting to never do any of those activities, considering … Continue reading
Layering
In a discussion on rasfc that started with describing characters, Patricia C. Wrede has posted two examples of layering — writing something with only one component, like dialogue, and then adding everything else, like description, action, internal monologue, as separate … Continue reading
Grrr
I really, really want to like OpenOffice, which I downloaded and installed today. But. It doesn't wrap text the way I want it to. MSWord has three options: print layout (obvious), web layout (wraps text to the window size) and … Continue reading
Miss Snark Index
Someone has very helpfully created an index of Miss Snark’s blog.
Headspace & Being a Writer
Shadawyn has a post on headspace (focus) and linked to a related article by Jennifer Crusie. Keeping my mind on my work is one of my biggest problems; my current solution is to go to a coffee shop on the … Continue reading
Plotting
I think I’m going to synopsize the theater book. wrote a synopsis, which reminded me of John Braine’s How to Write a Novel. I’ve only read the first chapter, but that’s the one in which he lays out his writing … Continue reading
Skating Club, Sparsely
Skating club! Broken zamboni; took half an hour to get the spare and make ice badly. Dances again. Progress on progressives? THREE GOOD SPINS. For “good” = “several rotations” = “good for me, not objectively good”.
Blogging & Notebooks
Recent Readings: * The other day, I read Miss Snark’s post about blogging, in which she says that having a boring blog is dangerous to writers because people will think the writer is boring. I recently ran across the same … Continue reading
Oh.
I wrote the other day: I know there’s a theory that you learn from critiquing, but I haven’t experienced it. Or maybe I just can’t tell. So it suddenly occured to me that what it actually means, when people say … Continue reading
The Blues
Skating Club: Dance again – the Blues. Mostly ok except for a forward cross-behind, where you skate on your left foot and cross the right behind it and pick up the left foot. I can’t do it (I get stuck … Continue reading
