Blog Entries from dnsralg

  1. Falling on my Face

    At 13 500 words. Major anxiety. Therapy cancelled this week. Hallucinations? Help!
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  2. Canada and Baseball

    The Toronto Blue Jays should not be eligible for the U.S. Major League. What next - baseball teams from the Republic of Kazakhstan?
  3. Amazing Achievement

    Last night, I finally breached 10 000 words! That's definitely a small miracle for someone with my attention span. :p It's currently my second longest piece ever! In addition to that, my story has officially evolved completely from my original idea. I feel like this was supposed to happen - I had so many holes and unanswered questions before, but now everything is coming together. I know I'm excited because my family simply roll their eyes when I start talking about it. Switching from...
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  4. How I Will Make Millions: The Idea of the Century

    As I lie in bed at the end of the day, I begin my process of falling asleep with a brainstorm. This is when I attempt some physical character development of my WIP characters for my own use (I tend not to care how my audience visualizes my characters as long as any plot-moving physical traits are defined). When I begin to see fractals in the darkness behind my eyelids, I switch over to entertain new story ideas. Though I always keep a pen and notebook on my bedside table, I rarely record new...
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  5. Friends who Journal: Turning Their Rant into Poetry

    I good friend of mine, Delilah, keeps a diary in the traditional sense. She writes in it (nightly, I think) to record anything in her day that affected her and any thoughts she needs to work through. Sometimes, Delilah exchanges her jumble of thoughts for a well-organized rant. One day, she seemed like she needed to talk about something; she appeared agitated. She gave me the gist of the situation, then allowed me to read her angst-ridden prose. A friend of Delilah's from private school,...
  6. The Benefits of Found Language

    (Some unnecessary personal background in the spoiler, my actual point below :p ) Thanks to the “Poetry- Texts, Forms, Experiments” course taught by the wonderfully talented Joan Retallack, I experienced a dramatic improvement to my writing. I entered the class with only one previous poetry workshop under my belt (taught by the equally enchanting Celia Bland) to augment the “understanding” of poetry I learned in High School. I was familiar with the most prevalent forms, though not their...
  7. Coffee, Cigarettes, and Flannel: The Writing Essentials

    Every writer has a process for writing a piece: creating an outline, bullet points, etc.; but another process exists before the writer even uncaps his pen. This process is a fulfillment of conditions which place the writer in a comfortable, inspired mental state. For me, it is the ingredients for a writing marathon. As long as my conditions are satisfied I can write for hours, pausing only to decide the perfect word for an idea. I can write a load of uninspired crap, but with my pre-writing...
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