Jeff Macfee

When I did community theatre I used to make fun of actors. Unstable, I used to say. Insecure, I’d say even louder. Always worried about how they looked, whether they were “on”, whether they had enough lines. Typical navel-gazing bullshit.
All the same crap I do now as a writer.
Ha, ha.
Today my writing lacks. Tomorrow I’ll [...]

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My editing skills have taken a turn for the worse. There was a time when I slashed phrases with the best of them, thought nothing of cutting the pretty fat from my babies. Now? Now I’m pregnant with words. Dude–I’m downright wordy.
Yes. Dude.
At any rate, I’m fleshing out the latest [...]

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Jeez–my edit marks outnumber my actual words. Draft one–you are a trainwreck.
Still, it feels good to finish the first pass. There’s good stuff in there, I just have to cut the wheat from the chaff. Cull the smaller fish. Drink the premium lager. Whatever.
Enough about me. Internets, how are [...]

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The first draft of my new short story Netherhouse Liquidation is complete. And yet, I am plagued by question–why do I always want to spell short story as shorty?
Discuss.

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My brain resists all attempts to wring creative blogging from it, so instead I note my writing goals for 2009:
1. Finish the short story I’m working on, which features the same characters and setting as my new novel-in-progress.
2. Finish the new novel-in-progress (at least first draft).
3. Come up with at least one [...]

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