Archive for the Writing category
What authors reveal
May 10, 2008I’m reading a book right now that is just plain embarrassing. I feel like I’m intruding in the author’s head, and I don’t like what [...]
First draft melodrama
April 19, 2008This passage is from the very first draft of the very first chapter I wrote. Both chapter and excerpt have since been rewritten several times. [...]
Grace notes
March 4, 2008. . . the road meandered along hills lined with the soft grey-brown of winter trees stitching a white sky to the ground.
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Beginnings
January 11, 2008I work from sentence to sentence. The first sentence of a chapter sets the tone and tells me where to go. I’m lost until that [...]
Wisps of writing
April 7, 2007A lot of people like to write out their first draft before coming back to touch up their prose. Well, I like to do that [...]
