As I write, I often will put in a bracket when I need to look something up. For instance, ” Watching riders do horse tricks had as much appeal as listening to a recitation of [something really dull]” Kurt Pankau is one of my readers for Without A Summer and commented: And totally off topic, I
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Oh, internet hive mind, can you help me? I need a carol-like anthem for a group of coldmongers to sing that is like Good King Wenceles but written prior to 1816. Coldmongers are, in essence, magicians who specialize in chilling things. Features that I like about Good King Wenceles Nice marching tempo Already mentions frost
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I’ve just done my read-through of the first eighteen chapters of Without a Summer and adjusted them based on that. My readers can expect a giant list of ret-cons when they dive into this chapter, including a brand new Chapter 1. Chapter 16 is up for those of you reading along. But since I could
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Chapter 15 of Without a Summer is up, for those of you reading along. This was a difficult chapter to write because it is a dinner party with a bajillion characters. The nice thing about the period is that you were really not supposed to talk across the table, though people did. This meant, however,
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This your third week of NaNoWriMo, and Dan Wells is here to tell you your wordcount should be at around 38,000. He also tells us how NaNoWriMo helped him write faster and keep to a schedule, and that you (yes YOU) are awesome. via NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan » Writing Excuses.
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Wow. It should not surprise me that this is an impressive trailer given that its provenance. Kevin McTurk, the creator, has been doing amazing work in puppetry for years. This film will be appearing in Heather Henson’s Handmade Puppet Dreams 2012 series. Looking forward to that in big, big ways. The Narrative of Victor Karloch
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Whee! Chapter 13 is posted of the Without a Summer draft. I spent most of my writing time today not actually writing. The scene I was writing involved a dinner which in turn involved me realizing that I could not write it until I had done a seating chart so that I knew where people
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Let’s face it. The characters in your book will do some dumb things. We’re here to help you make sure they do those dumb things for the right reasons. Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of dumb, and how you as an author can write dumb smart.
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I’ve crossed the 50,000 word mark in the NaNoWriMo race. The novel is, naturally, far from finished, but it is very satisfying to know that I can write 50k in 20 days. If I maintained this pace, then I would have a completed draft by the end of the month. I may aim for that,
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