I set targets for myself. My current project I write at least a thousand words per day. Then I pack up. Next day I run through what I've written...
My pencilled notes refusing to transplant themselves on my computer screen. Latest story is a case in point. Just can't seem to get to writing it,...
Writing character. I think I've always been strongest in that department. I'm taking a course in short story writing and my tutor thinks I write...
Although I've been told I write dialogue well, I don't like writing it> For sure, it's necessary where I feel it to drive the plot. Old friend of...
I once attended a writing workshop where we were told: first, just get the text out. That serves as a solid enough draft to work on...
I uses MS Word 2003. Great feature for me is the cursor over word, right click for thesaurus. Love that feature. vanhunks
Section breaks are important to separate scenes. I usually use the * in my own stories, but from the novels [Like Phillip Roth in "I married a...
My writing dream is to write a novel that will be published. To walk into a bookstore seeing someone holding up my book with the intention of...
Names come to me too, mostly. Though I wuold give a woman in her eighties a name that was popular for girls eighty years ago. Yes, there must be...
I call them story dreams. Sometimes I dream an entire story sequence. Of course, when I wake up in the morning, I have very little recollection of...
Where I live we have large communites living in the kind of conditions you've described. They neil together with leftover timber, plastis...
I like to give my characters a well-roundedness, which may not be possible in a short story where I focus perhaps on one aspect of a character's...
About ten years ago I purchased a pair of Zennheiser headphones, one with large pads covering my ears, so I could listen in total privacy. When...
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