Outlining your work, whenever possible, can save you and your ideas. As a recovering pantser, I really hate that this is true. Even worse,evidence continues mounting to support it. This morning I decided to get out of my house and go up to the coffee shop, armed with the sparkly-eyed idea that being around other human beings would be a good idea. While walking I came up with a fun but vague idea for today’s blog post, and loosely structured…
Almost missed my post for the day. It’s 6pm here. There’s been a lot going on. Speculations 002 is out today, which you should check out and subscribe to. This issue features me rambling about quantum entanglement. After finishing and publishing the newsletter, today was mostly about wedding stuff that needed to be taken care of. The mountain of craft supplies for decorations continues to grow, and finding a photographer is proving to be something of a challenge. I am completely in favor…
Your first draft is supposed to be ugly and gross and not make much sense. That’s what it’s for. No one gets to see it.
Last night I started reading Chuck Wendig’s cybercrime novel, Zeroes. So far, it’s a lot of fun. But fun is typically what I expect from Chuck. Zeroes has me thinking about other ways to assemble different characters. This one has a team that has to be assembled by a common thread, here in the form of a government agent. I may have figured out why the beginning of my scientists vs. kaiju story just didn’t work. Reading fiction for fun…