How I Write
Recently on Chuck Wendig’s blog, he was talking about the nuts and bolts of his writing process. I posted a comment about my own process, but thought I would expand on it a bit. First off, because I...
View ArticleTo The Far West: Research and Outlining
One thing I haven’t done on my blog is go through the process of creating fiction, from start to finish. Since I’m in the middle of a short story, I thought it would be a good time to correct that...
View ArticleTo the Far West: By Any Means Necessary
Last time, I talked about outlining the story. From there, I started on my shitty first draft. (Note: Get used to the word “shitty.” It comes up a lot.) To be clear, I intentionally call this a shitty...
View ArticleTo the Far West: Writing is Rewriting
Last time I ended up with a shitty first draft. And it was shitty — I changed my mind in the middle of the story twice, I didn’t like the name of one of the characters after I typed it out a dozen...
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