You’re The Giver! by Lois Lowry While you grew up with a sheltered childhood, you’re pretty sureeveryone around you is even more sheltered. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, you weretapped on the shoulder and transported to the real world. This made you horrified byyour prior upbringing and now you’re tormented by how to reconcile these two lives.Ultimately, the struggle comes down to that old free will issue. Choosewisely. Take the Book Quizat the Blue Pyramid. Unfortunately, never read this book, but it’s been recommended to me. Someone once said “The Heretic” was exactly like this, so I’m probably afraid that it’ll be too close for comfort. Same reason I can’t…
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The Ghost of Writing Past
I’ve decided to stop work on trying to revise The Heretic. It’s just too… well, it’s just too bad. I can’t even get through the introduction without hwarfing. The plot isn’t cohesive enough or interesting enough, and I keep feeling that the effort to make it such would be insurmountable. This was my first major work after Blood 1, which is to say, I consider it my second “original” work. It’s also my only truly original work, which is why I considered it for publication. But there’s just not enough there, and if I can’t read it, no one will. This is probably why a lot of writer’s don’t try…
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The Past Bites
Working on The Heretic is not going so great. The more I look at it, the more I see just how much it fucking sucks. Adverbs everywhere. Dull characters. Plodding plot. I remember when I was writing it I wanted to make the first part kinda boring so that would contrast with the second part. But jeez that doesn’t make people want to read it. The more I read it the more I think “How the hell am I going to fix this piece of garbage? Is it beyond repair?” My whole intention was to spruce it up with my new skills and get it ready for publishing. I wrote…
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Back to the Grindstone
Still no comments on FictionSlamming, and nothing new on Zoetrope. What’s the deal? Don’t you like me? Ah, well, it means nothing but keep grinding away. Galerians ain’t gonna write itself. Gotta keep plugging away. The format of the Galerians pre-writing is getting a vibe much like Heretic – lots of dynamic characters all hapahzardly thrown together. Hopefully that’s a good sign, because I really enjoyed that part of Heretic. I’m into revising the characters now. The problem with that is you never quite know how much history to add, whether it’ll be a waste or if it turns out to be a sudden revelation that turns the plot. The…
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Update of the Moment
The writing’s been good lately, as far as I’m concerned. Not as much as I would like, but at least I’m getting good ideas. Right now, I’m working on the timeline for the story. Not to say I’m done with the characterization, but that seems to be where the pencil compass is pointing, and I’d prefer to flow with it than resist it. I can come back to characterization later.I was talking before about how I should submit something so I can get my foot in the door. Well, I was thinking of submitting something I wrote a long time ago (in college), that I never really expected to be…