Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted on schedule usual. Two submissions returned from market and I sent them right back out. Heinlein would be so proud… I now have a little over two weeks to go before my next scheduled release day (May 13th), but I still haven’t decided what it will be. … Continue reading
As I’ve been studying recently, I’ve found a lot of ideas to think about and look for in my own stories, but I haven’t found anyone else’s method that I can duplicate. I find myself taking those alien methods apart and cobbling bits and pieces into my revision process, and that hopefully makes my finished stories better. Continue reading
I am not a purist. I’m willing to accept changes to a story I like when it moves to another format if those changes help with the translation. You see, moving a piece of literature to video is as much a form of translation as moving from one language to another.
There are things that work well in literature, but are very hard to do in film, such as showing what a character is thinking. At the same time, there are things that film is good at – showing and establishing settings, for one thing (a picture is worth a thousand words.) There is also the issue a film-maker needs to deal with of how to compress a huge story into something viewable. Continue reading
I believe we were put in this life by a CREATOR. I don’t think He is constantly, actively involved in our world, or our individual lives (I’m not going to waste my time making sure I use equal references of HE/SHE/IT. There was a time when we could simply say HE whenever the gender of … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries were posted on schedule. All my submissions were returned to markets as soon as they arrived home. One of those “rejections” was my fifth Honorable Mention (this time a SILVER) from the Writers of te Future Contest for “The View from My Cage Is Breathtaking.” I wrote on … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All returned stories were sent back out to market. Up to this point, I have only been willing to submit to publications that pay professional rates (8-cents per word or greater), but for the for the first time I’ve decided to start submitting to lesser-paying markets … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All returned stories were sent back out to market. I failed to make my weekly and daily quotas – I wrote no fiction on any day last week. I had too much LIFE items to deal with to allow more writing than required to get my … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted as scheduled. Rotating my stories back out to market as fast as I can. I failed to make my weekly quota once more – only 785 words of fiction. I finished my reacquaintance revision of Swordsmaster: Deception. I wrote six days, but didn’t make my daily quota … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted as scheduled. I have everything I can reasonably expect back out to market. (There are still a couple of stories that are waiting for markets to open.) I failed to make my weekly quota again, with only 1,303 words of fiction (this was while reacquainting myself with … Continue reading
In my misspent youth, I did some acting. (Actually, I don’t know why I’m saying “misspent” – everything each of us does in life goes into making us who we are, so unless you’re doing something destructive, it’s not really misspent.) I was playing The Reindeer in the The Snow Queen, and I developed this … Continue reading
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