May 9, 2010
Earlier this year, I was having a superproductive writing period. Writing most days, cranking out a high word count. Things were going well. Until they weren’t. Somehow I found myself more than 100,000 words in my novel, with no end in sight. What went wrong, and how could I fix it, short of scrapping my [...]
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May 1, 2010
Yesterday, after meeting a friend for breakfast, a creative lightning bolt struck me on Sixth Avenue. I was thinking about our conversation, and it triggered an exciting possibility for my novel. This one element could help me tie up several loose ends, propel the story forward and shrink the bloated piece down to a manageable [...]
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