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Entries from November 2007

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November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

The book is dovetailing nicely toward an end. It is literature. It is a bible. It is the Dianetics of the literary world, and a thousand years from now entire religions will form around its greatness. This novel is the Wyld Stallyns of our time, and an entire future will depend [...]

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More sounds of draft one

November 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

• George Thorogood and the Destroyers – Who Do You Love?
• The Clash – Should I Stay or Go Now?
• Soundtrack to Batman Begins (right amount of creepy and dramatic surges for bits in the last half of the book)

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This is the end

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I may regret that blog title, as I’m not actually at the end. But I’m getting close enough to consider the “hows” of the end. It’s scaring the living crap right out of my frail little girl-like body.
Initially the book was all about exploring the characters, and everyone knows that’s the best part. [...]

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Sixty-five thousand

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Wo hoo! Cracked sixty-five thousand words today. And that’s during a week which saw diminished production. A couple of my days were only one thousand word days.
I can’t believe it, but I may very well be approaching the home stretch of DRAFT ONE! There’s a long way to go, but I [...]

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I feel bad

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments

The probable beginnings of a cold have combined with a general lethargy in my writing. It was a struggle to hit one thousand words that I would actually keep in the first draft. I must have spent four hours writing and re-writing the same three to four paragraphs.
Some days will be like this. [...]

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