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“Write to make sense of your life, to create order in your world, to discover you own truth, which is apart from any Truth pushed at you from an outside source.” -Holly Lisle

Archive for February 5th, 2008

Writing

Posted by zarffyn on February 5, 2008

Well, since this is a writing blog primarily, I suppose I should throw out an update on said writing progress.

I am still working on “Mirror Mirror,” but the writing goes slow. This isn’t due to lack of motivation, but lack of time. Working a lot lately, and there are other things that need doing during my limited downtime (like, cooking, laundry, etc.) I’m going to start trying to “schedule” my writing time, so that I have time to write something.

Plotting for Demonbane has begun. This takes second priority to “Mirror Mirror,” because there are elements in “Mirror Mirror” that will shape how I write Demonbane. Yes, Demonbane is the first story. But by seeing how Jules deals with things, I can trace it back, de-evolve it. At least, it makes sense in my head. Demonbane will also be slower going, because it’s a full-length novel, projected at 80,000 words minimum. That’s significantly more plotting involved.

Muchas gracias to Holly Lisle for her writing help, in the form of Create A Plot Clinic, Create A Character Clinic (both amazing workshops), and her email plotting course.

Tomorrow is my day off (only one for the week).  The plan is to stop by Nora’s Cafe after running a few errands, and spend an hour or so working on writing.  Yay.

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