Tag: writing ideas
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There’s no way to know if you should “blow-up” your writing
You’re cruising along in your writing, following a certain idea, a certain rabbit trail that has you darting and dogging over and under a thrilling maze of obstacles until you are satisfied that you have what you want. And then, you get another idea – an idea which will completely restructure everything you just wrote.…
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A Momentary Lapse Into Sanity
Every once in a while my writer’s mind will surface from the deep belly underworld of my Mariana Trench-like mind to breath the normal air of my surroundings. What is it that I find when this happens? Normal things, mostly. Like baseball, for instance. I’m not a writer when I’m a baseball fan. Everything turns…
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The Best Comment About My Play (and it revealed something about writing)
After the Short & Sweet Theatre performance on Friday, a young Chinese woman in her 20s approached me and asked: “Are you the writer of ‘Almighty Might’?” I replied that I was, and then she looked at me intently and asked: “How did you write that? I mean, when I first saw it I was…
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Writer’s block or not?
This ARTICLE got me thinking a little bit about what writer’s block actually is. To me, writer’s block is just a matter of semantics. What one person calls ‘writer’s block’, I call just needing some time to let it sort itself out. About two years ago I started writing a short play entitled “Jerome the Cruel and…
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Writing and Driving
I was in Kuala Lumpur this weekend on an amazingly fun softball trip. During the 5-hour drive home, I decided to do some writing. No pen or paper. No gadgets. No voice activated recordings. Just me in my thoughts, navigating a tricky plot sequence of my third novel. Thinking is the part of writing that you…
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Too many dreams in my head
Here’s the problem I have with writing – I have too much to write! Status check: 1st novel published. 2nd novel finished. Publication date: 2013 3rd novel started. Finish date, summer 2013 4th novel in my head. Start date ? 5th novel?? (I’ll think of something, probably soon.) There are so many possibilities. I feel…
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Writing ideas from any place
Have you ever been inspired by a squid? I’m not a fantasy or, really, any genre writer. My novels are realistic human dramas. Fantasy is fine if that is what you like, and I have another post on genre writing coming up, but I just don’t like breaking the laws of this universe in my…
Author Mark W Sasse 