Apollocon writers workshop update
If any workshoppers are checking in here — submissions are closed. I received nine mss. I will be getting in touch with participants this week. See you in a month!
Archive | May, 2009
Writing lessons — avoiding the action catalog
Words: 0 Bad author, no cookie! One of the dangers if you will of showing rather than telling, is that you can become mired in the action catalog. This is sentence after sentence that detail, often excruciatingly, what the protagonist is doing second by second. Miranda hit the snooze button and went back to sleep. [...]
Word count — closing in on The End
Words: 850 (yesterday 1,375) Music: None, unless you count the noise of the fan. Music to my ears, anyway The project is almost finished. I estimate I am around 5,000 words from the end, maybe fewer. I will finish on schedule or as near to it as possible, and after I write the new story [...]
