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Category Archives: Writing Process
David Milch on writing and God
Tweet “When you are not writing, you’re going to be sad. You are going to feel inadequate. You are going to feel untalented. You are going to feel incompetent. It’s crucially important to understand that the impulse to write is a reaching out to God.” —David Milch, creator of Deadwood and so much more, in [...]
WFMAD Day 5 – Suckitude plus Confusion
Tweet Let me expand on yesterday’s remarks about the suckitude that often pours onto the page in the early stage of a writing project. I’m going to use the writing of WINTERGIRLS as an example. When I was first fumbling around with the first draft, I knew that I wanted to write about [...]
WFMAD Day 4 – The Big Secret of Writing
Tweet I could get in a lot of trouble for this. The Author’s Guild might send ninja zombies to my house. My agent might draw a line through my name in her Big Book. She’ll use my blood for ink. SCBWI will throw my membership card into the ocean. No one will return my calls. [...]
WFMAD Day 3 – Taste the fiction
Tweet Day Three! Judging from your comments, some of you guys are pounding away at the keys…. some of you are having trouble finding your keyboard. Remember. You have PERMISSION to write this month. Maybe I should change that. You are REQUIRED to write at least 15 minutes a day for the rest of the [...]
WFMAD Day 2 – Why Not?
Tweet Yay! You did it!! Thank you SO MUCH for joining our band of merry scribblers and a special big thanks to everyone who commented here on the official blog, as well as on LJ and FaceBook. It was a thrill to hear how Day One went for you. Well, how it went for most [...]
Write Fifteen Minutes A Day (WFMAD) – Day 1
Tweet Start your engines!! Write Fifteen Minutes A Day© is here! Get ready to scribble! The rules are simple. In fact, they aren’t even rules. They’re more like guidelines, the Pirate Code of Writing.1. Commit to write for 15 minutes a day for the entire month of August.2. Just do it.Seriously. That’s all there is [...]
Ready to Write?
Tweet Twenty-four hours to go until my annual Write Fifteen Minutes a Day (WFMAD) Challenge!! I feel like a boxer’s trainer, rubbing her shoulders, fanning her with a towel, about to push her to the center of the ring and say “Go get ‘em, champ.” Are any of you taking the plunge a day early? [...]