I finished chapter 7 after a flurry of writing in recent days. It’s another “conversation” chapter, but it sets up a lot of the mystery that will be resolved in the end. I also managed to squeeze in a little tone of menace that should keep the reader’s interest level up.
Maybe it’s all of the [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Chapter 7 completed
November 25, 2007
Of shorter matters
November 23, 2007
As I continue to make progress on my novel Finnegans Afoot, I have returned to a very old short story I had fiddled with and left unfinished. They say that the ideas that just won’t go away are the best ones. I hope that is true because I will have to invest a great deal [...]
Keeping a journal
November 21, 2007
I’ve kept a hand-written journal for more than twenty-five years. Into it I’ve poured story ideas, bits of dialogue, research, musings, and even, occasionally, accounts of my day (though it’s not really anything like a diary). Sometimes I make only a couple of sentences as my entry. Sometimes I go on for pages. Sometimes weeks [...]
Nancy Drew moment
November 18, 2007
And I don’t mean that in a good way.
What I’m referring to is the tendency — nay, the obligation — some writers seem to feel to describe in great detail the clothing a character is wearing. In great and utterly useless detail. In detail that interrupts the flow of the story or the drive of [...]
Got the tee-shirt
November 9, 2007
“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”
Susan Sontag in the foreword to Pedro Paramo
That’s a lofty sounding thought, but I’m not sure I agree with it. At least, I think that different people come to reading with different expectations or requirements. Someone might come to a popular [...]
Chapter 6 coming along
November 3, 2007
I had a good writing session with chapter 6 of Finnegans Afoot this morning, putting down more than 2000 (first draft) words. After the troubles I had with chapters 4 and 5, I worried that I was going to have to fight the whole way to the finish, but not so. At least not so [...]
Taking the train
November 1, 2007
I think I finally have chapter five of Finnegans Afoot under control. I had a difficult time with chapter four, and when I got past that, I really thought I had the trouble behind me. Finding it again tells me that I will probably have a difficult slog through this novel.
I liken writing a story [...]
