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Drafts Bin Rescues: Writing Things - Part (te)N

When I started The Wimsel Loop, I only knew more-or-less two things about it: it somehow involves a loop, and it will accept most of what I submit to it for consideration. That was certainly something – and so I started something, more specifically. Doodles & Directions I like to draw pictures. My favourite kind of drawing to do is doodles. What goes on in the doodling mind is something like…

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Still Here, Quite Still

Some days I feel I have so much to say that it amounts to having nothing much to say. Most of the time I write about trying to write, or having nothing to write, or changing my mind about what is worth writing about. I think this is a flavour of depression but maybe I should stop assuming things like that, and just write. So here’s a little story. It’s very little. Just wanted to add that…

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Writing Things, Part 8

I just re-read part 7 of this series, looking for clues from earlier iterations of myself about what we’ve been trying to do together all this time. It’s fitting that I mention sketchbooks so much in that last episode, because that scattering collection of thoughts has certainly become a great and growing ally and nemesis in this adventure. It’s not like I’ve stopped Writing Things. I’ve just…

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Prompted to Performing

What’s your dream job? The house is quiet, and I’m afraid to speak. As I awoke from a nap, I received a newsletter, which contained a story, which led me to a blog, which triggered the website to tell my phone to suggest that we install an app… And so here we are – the app and my phone have found us a prompt from the Internet, to help us write: What’s your dream job? I’m holding a phone…

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Writing Things, Part 7

Spoilers Ahead? Last time I wrote here about writing, I made some constraint-based creative decisions about how time progresses in my speculative fiction novel (which, fittingly, is itself still pretty speculative). Taking Breaks If I were the sort of writer that worked hard at writing every day, you might naturally expect me to be able to talk about the importance of taking breaks now and…

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Writing Things, Part 6

Spoilers Ahead Last time I wrote here about writing, I promised myself in front of other people that I’d do an outline. Well, I’m getting to it. Counting Words Every time I re-read my chapters, I’m struck by all the words. I mean, I use a lot of words. I like repeating things. Like you didn’t get them the first time, and you need more words to read until you figure out what I’m trying to…

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Writing Things, Part 5

Spoilers Abound In the latest chapter, I introduce a lot of cussing. I never claimed the book wouldn’t involve cussing, but I admit I didn’t really warn the reader there would be language, either. I don’t know if this matters. Maeve’s mother Ani is not Maeve – she’s another hero of another story, and how she goes about things and expresses herself is different. This is obvious: we’re all…

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Writing Things, Part 4

In this Writing Things series, I talk about the process of trying to complete slowly, successfully completing my first book. In writing the 12th book chapter, Crossroads, I had come to a crossroads in my thinking about the story. Maybe it was an act of self-hypnotism: I named the chapter and then the chapter’s name demanded an answer of me: What was I going to do with this second set of…

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Writing Things, Part 3

The Spoiler Room I’m going to pretend missing two posts of my book (I was trying to consistently post on Sundays and Wednesdays) was me taking a conscious break, rather than me missing two self-imposed deadlines in a row. I’m not even behind in writing anything new – just editing and posting something I’ve already written, weeks and weeks ago. I’m some kind of good at procrastination. But now…

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Writing Things, Part 2

Nothing to see here… just writing about writing things. Another thing I’m noticing about writing a book [as opposed to “trying to write a book”, which is what I’m forcing myself not to call it, anymore] is that I have very little idea if the story reads well – and consistently – to anybody else. I’ve gotten some very kind feedback and some generous likes. These things are very appreciated. The…

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Buried in Freedom

The part of free will which kind of sucks (don’t tell the gifter of it that I said this, I don’t want to appear ungrateful) is that somedays, I just don’t know what to do with myself. This morning, I’m just overwhelmed. I started off planning to spend the day waiting in the emergency room, to have somebody tell me my foot is going to be fine. The doctors here are even more overwhelmed, and on…

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Writing Things, Part 1

I should hire an AI to auto-generate my blog titles. I’m writing things. Writing a book involves lots of typing and then a whole lot of going back over sentences, looking for the “and and” and the “you’re” instead of “your” and the gaping holes in continuity, and the : that should really be a – no wait a minute I think the : was right in the first place. Etc etc. I wrote twelve chapters under a…

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The Sundry Me's

The Sundry Me’s

A while ago, I decided to start this WordPress thing so that I could write a fantasy book called The Wimsel Loop out in the open, and kind of give it away, Patreon-style. I started doing that and got two supporters and then got cold feet and shut it all down. This WordPress thing became a general-purpose blog where I continued to practice writing, and continued to false-start my book idea. I got…

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Love Stories

There was a tree once, and it knew a lake, and the lake had in it a fish, and the lake and the fish and the tree all loved each other, and that seems like a good place to start a story. The tree had roots, as trees do. The lake, being one, was confined to where the land had allowed it to settle. The fish needed the lake, and the lake had a purpose, which was making a home for the fish. These…

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The Flags Came Finally Down

In the year 2029 (or roughly thereabouts), the world, having finally stopped warring with itself (and therefore being on quickly on the mend) decreed that all of its flags forevermore (and when flags were even called for) should, out of respect for the far-too-many millions dead from conflicts and global mismanagement over the many millennia, be forever flown at half-mast. The decree was raised…

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Hand me that Ratchety-RiggamaJigger

* WARNING: THIS BLOG POST IS JUST SO MUCH NONSENSE * The number of blog posts on this thing that I have published is keeping ahead of the number of blog posts that I have begun on this thing to draft, but only somewhat barely. Starting things for me has always been a bit easier than finishing them. By that, I think I mean that I find starting things more fun, and finishing them less fun. I…

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Beer, the Third

Once our neighbour Harry had his third beer in him, anything might get said. This is why I tried so hard to stay up late enough on those nights when he came over to play Crib with Aunt Bee. I couldn’t stand the thought of missing something Harry might say. I had a whole notebook dedicated to him. I had planned to write a book. One more project that never really went where I thought I wanted it…

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