I managed to complete Chapter 17 of my novel, The Sleep of Reason, today. I did this in part by truncating it sooner than I had originally intended, moving the unused material to the next chapter.
This is the fateful chapter. It is the one in which my protagonist acts, as a free man, and seals [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Chapter 17 is completed
May 30, 2009
Says who?
May 29, 2009
My recent decision to change from a first person to a third person narrator of my novel, The Sleep of Reason, requires me to decide who my new narrator will be.
My first person narrator, the protagonist, is a bit of a pompous man. He is well educated and has a good vocabulary, so his narration [...]
Congratulations, Brian!
May 27, 2009
A word of note that Young Mr. Brian Keaney of the ever insightful Dreaming in Text blog was the individual who made the one hundredth comment here on this humble blog. You can read his good words here.
As prize for his achievement, Brian receives my high regards and continued devotion to his blog.
Huzzah!
Chapter Seventeen progresses
May 24, 2009
I’ve made satisfactory progress on writing Chapter 17 of my novel, The Sleep of Reason. It’s now up to 3,500 words, and I expect about 2,000 more will finish it.
This is a fateful chapter, and I mean that literally. The protagonist chooses his fate in this chapter. Some months ago I dithered in this post [...]
Duotrope’s Digest
May 23, 2009
Having now found homes for three of my short stories though the site, I can heartily recommend to you Duotrope’s Digest, which is, among other things, a fantastic, sortable listing of electronic and print publications looking for your fiction and poetry.
If you haven’t heard of it before, you should treat yourself to a visit. The [...]
Who is more creative?
May 21, 2009
Would you consider a piano composer or a fiction writer to be more creative?
A writer has 26 letters and ten numerals that he or she can arrange in any combination until the finished work is produced.
The piano composer, on the other hand, has 88 keys that he or she can arrange in any combination until [...]
Swirling thoughts
May 19, 2009
While still tremendously busy with The Sleep of Reason, I’ve been paying some attention to the swirling thoughts in my head about the next novel I might write.
I’m still a bit sketchy about it — where it would go, what it would do, who might populate it, who might narrate it, and that sort of [...]
Taming a woolly beast
May 16, 2009
What a woolly beast The Sleep of Reason has become! More than a year into the writing of it, I find myself slipping in my overall control. Sure, I know where the story is headed, and I know how to get there. That part is fine (if slow in progressing). Yet so much of the [...]
in which I change my mind
May 12, 2009
For a long time I held steadfastly to the notion that no writer ever really embarked on a story with no idea where it was going. I felt certain that those claiming to do so — and I’ve heard many — were either being facetious or forgetful. Or they were beginners. Or they were lying [...]
