Jeff Macfee

Just saw Cloverfield, and it was better than I though it would be. Intense, thought the characters were true to the setting and the situations, really well done. Some reviews called out the “vapid and shallow twenty-something characters”. Well…it’s NYC, and the characters are supposed to be in their twenties. I’d say vapid and shallow [...]

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I’ve finished the second draft of Three Coins, and my eyes want to pop out. Good progress, I think. I got carried away and tried to plunge right into the third draft. Big mistake, as just reading one page was enough for me to want it destroyed. I think I need some time away from [...]

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An update on what I’ve been doing: 1. Finished reading the Moneymaker first draft, with notations throughout. I’m betting I’ll rewrite most of the last half. That would have been spine-breaking to realize during the writing. It is only agonizing at this point. 2. Finished reading Three Coins first draft, with notations throughout. I’m doing [...]

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A “eureka!” moment. I’ve read about it. Supposedly other writes catch this moment, but it’s been strangely absent from my writing life. Until today. I’ve extricated myself from the beached whale that is the second draft of Moneymaker. It seems like it’s never going to come together, and that I need to do a total [...]

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I had a busy day, and word-wise got a lot done, although the work was scattered across three different pieces, so it’s hard to get my head around what I accomplished today. Three Coins. I’ve done about seven more pages of the second draft, bringing me to page eight. There were originally twenty-one pages in [...]

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