What are the three most important words in writing:
Finish The Story!!!!
What do I mean? Get it out of you and onto paper or in modern times in pixels, either way - get it done!
Don't worry about spelling - that's what spell check is for.
Dont' worry about gramtical errors - that's what proof reading is for.
Don't worry about continuity, that's what editing is for.
Just get the story down, just write!!! That's it, that's all.
Finish the story, you'll feel better, be more at ease, and when the time comes to edit and proof read and spellcheck - you'll have something to work with.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Weekend update
SO here it is monday again.
The kids are all sick, the house is a mess and I'm trying to write.
Good luck with that!
I did make my way up to 23,000 words on the NaNoWriMo submission though, so I at least got that much done.
Yay, me! - Ok, so I watch too much Disney Channel with the kids, but the sentiment is what counts.
The most important thing is to keep moving, keep trying. Even if only for a few minutes between wiping noses and rubbing backs and reading Thomas the Tank Engine stories. Write!
I write, not because I want to, but because I have to.
The stories trapped within me need to be set free. They flow into me without conscious thought or premeditated planning, as if my mind was tuned into some mystic radio station and the words are the songs, the waves, that are broadcast through time and space. I place pen to paper, or in this case finger to keyboard, and it just pours out.
Thus is the creative process.
The kids are all sick, the house is a mess and I'm trying to write.
Good luck with that!
I did make my way up to 23,000 words on the NaNoWriMo submission though, so I at least got that much done.
Yay, me! - Ok, so I watch too much Disney Channel with the kids, but the sentiment is what counts.
The most important thing is to keep moving, keep trying. Even if only for a few minutes between wiping noses and rubbing backs and reading Thomas the Tank Engine stories. Write!
I write, not because I want to, but because I have to.
The stories trapped within me need to be set free. They flow into me without conscious thought or premeditated planning, as if my mind was tuned into some mystic radio station and the words are the songs, the waves, that are broadcast through time and space. I place pen to paper, or in this case finger to keyboard, and it just pours out.
Thus is the creative process.
Friday, November 13, 2009
NaNoWriMo up date
Hard at work on my second NaNoWriMo! I finished last years with a few days to spare, hoping to do the same this year. I broke the 18,000 word mark today, shooting for 25,000 by sunday night.
Wish me luck :)
Wish me luck :)
New short story posted on website
Hi all:
I just posted a new short story on my writer's group web site entitled The Unknown below is the link
www.fictionwritersgroup.com/defaults/viewwork/365
Feel free to leave a comment!
Well off to work now!
I just posted a new short story on my writer's group web site entitled The Unknown below is the link
www.fictionwritersgroup.com/defaults/viewwork/365
Feel free to leave a comment!
Well off to work now!
Day one- act one
So this is my first attempt at "Blogging" so please bare with me if I ramble a bit. I've never been one to journal, I always felt that my time was better spent in actually writing the stories rather than writing stories about writing the stories. Anyway...
Let's start at the begining, My name is Dave and I am a writer.
There I said it, right out loud and everything, not that you, the reader, could hear me, unless you are standing behind me in kitchen here while I tap away at the keyboard of my lap-top. If that is the case, be a pal and hand me a soda will ya?
Blogging is damned parched work.
Here's a little background on little old me - I am an avid reader, and I mean AVID. I tend to read two books a week, and even as I write this I am working my way through three different novels. The Lost Symbol - by Dan Brown. Splinter Cell: Conviction - by David Michaels. And my old stand-by, Don Pendleton's The Executioner: Lethal Compound - by who ever the latest ghost writer is who is currently carrying the mantle. There are over 370 such novels - only the first 38 were actually penned by Don Pendleton himself - the rest, well they get a by-line on the inside cover.
I'd like to add my name to that list someday.
Besides reading, and working a full time "professional" job, and raising three great kids, I write. Hense the big statement about me being a writer. At the moment I am putting the finishing touches on what I hope will be my first published novel - Hey I said hope. I know the odds are long, but it is in me and it just has to come out. And since I am putting it to paper (actually screen since I write on the computer) I may as well share. Right? Right.
I have had some limited success with poetry, and I also write interviews with Publishers, Authors, Editors, Agents and the like on a few different websites. My own included - feel free to check them out www.10quickquestions.ning.com is where I post most of my interviews and I also have an online writers group, aptly named www.fictionwritersgroup.com where members place stories for review and entertainment.
I was trying to make the writer's group site into the next Next Big Writer site but with limited cash flow it died out quickly - now it is a free site to everyone, feel free to promo your books on the site as well. It still gets several thousand hits a month, so it might help to get your book sold.
Well I guess that should about do it for today. How did I do? Let me know and don't be afraid to drop me a line. Yours, In Writing, Dave
Let's start at the begining, My name is Dave and I am a writer.
There I said it, right out loud and everything, not that you, the reader, could hear me, unless you are standing behind me in kitchen here while I tap away at the keyboard of my lap-top. If that is the case, be a pal and hand me a soda will ya?
Blogging is damned parched work.
Here's a little background on little old me - I am an avid reader, and I mean AVID. I tend to read two books a week, and even as I write this I am working my way through three different novels. The Lost Symbol - by Dan Brown. Splinter Cell: Conviction - by David Michaels. And my old stand-by, Don Pendleton's The Executioner: Lethal Compound - by who ever the latest ghost writer is who is currently carrying the mantle. There are over 370 such novels - only the first 38 were actually penned by Don Pendleton himself - the rest, well they get a by-line on the inside cover.
I'd like to add my name to that list someday.
Besides reading, and working a full time "professional" job, and raising three great kids, I write. Hense the big statement about me being a writer. At the moment I am putting the finishing touches on what I hope will be my first published novel - Hey I said hope. I know the odds are long, but it is in me and it just has to come out. And since I am putting it to paper (actually screen since I write on the computer) I may as well share. Right? Right.
I have had some limited success with poetry, and I also write interviews with Publishers, Authors, Editors, Agents and the like on a few different websites. My own included - feel free to check them out www.10quickquestions.ning.com is where I post most of my interviews and I also have an online writers group, aptly named www.fictionwritersgroup.com where members place stories for review and entertainment.
I was trying to make the writer's group site into the next Next Big Writer site but with limited cash flow it died out quickly - now it is a free site to everyone, feel free to promo your books on the site as well. It still gets several thousand hits a month, so it might help to get your book sold.
Well I guess that should about do it for today. How did I do? Let me know and don't be afraid to drop me a line. Yours, In Writing, Dave
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