Jeff Macfee

Wow. Just finished my first day of editing. I’ve never been this far before with a novel. The volume of changes I can make is staggering. There are spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, sentence structure problems, character issues, and plot holes. And that’s just the stuff I see right away. It is, in a word, overwhelming. [...]

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Draft One of Three Coins is complete. Think I’ll let it marinate a few days before starting Draft Two. Draft Two of Moneymaker is underway. It’s . . . not bad. I’m surprised. Second half needs more work than the first, but still, I’m not in a bad place. Technorati Tags: writing

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I’ve been thinking a lot about life as a “real writer”. And not the fantasy anymore. Rather, the parts I know to be real. A schedule that is more or less my own (less the schedule for son, wife, promotion commitments, etc.) I can wear what I want, less the occasional wedding and, if god [...]

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I’ve just finished a short story called Three Coins. It’s about seven thousand words I think — I can’t be sure as some of it was written by hand on an airplane, and I haven’t typed it all in yet. Underneath is a good concept I like, four men brought together who wouldn’t ordinarily spend [...]

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Just saw “I am Legend” No — it’s not the book, but the movie is never the book. It’s never bothered me as a read/movie goer, and I suspect it won’t bother should I ever win the life lotto and publish a book that is turned into a film. This was a great action movie [...]

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