Jeff Macfee

For those interested, the music setting the tone for draft one. I’ve found music to play a big part in setting tone for what I’m writing. Some of these songs were played over and over for hours while I was writing a certain scene or set of scenes. But enough of my [...]

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Life is not just about writing. There are always outside factors, and one of those took a swipe at my writing mojo yesterday.
Let me remind everyone NOT to quit your job.
I thought I had a safety net job, a job I had been cultivating for some time. In the back of my mind [...]

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And then it was all better.
In my last post, despair was in the air, and I was on the verge of novelcide.
Then I hit the key moment in the book, the “things are maybe looking up and then the floor drops out under our hero” moment.
And that moment feels really good. Sure [...]

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From this point forward I should be able to blog about the day-to-day of writing my book.
Today is shit.
I’m not feeling the character and his voice, at all. I still love this main character, but I’m not hearing his voice in my head. I think I’m getting too concerned with plot. It’s [...]

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There comes a point in your life when, if you aren’t doing what you want to be doing, you take a big leap and give it a go. Pretty much everyone does it in their 30’s, so why should I be any different.
With that in mind, about four weeks ago I quit my job [...]

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