One of the unexpected discoveries (and aren’t those the best kind?) I made while in New York was a small storefront down the block from my daughter’s apartment called the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. This store sells all of the equipment needed to conduct most superhero activities.
At this store (and through mail order) you can [...]
Archive for June, 2009
How to Become a Superhero
June 30, 2009
Chapter 18 progresses
June 28, 2009
What a trudge it has been returning to the business of writing this latest chapter of The Sleep of Reason, having spent a week away, frolicking in New York. I know what Chapter 18 must do; I know the plot points it must address. The hard part is putting one word in front of another [...]
New York dispatch
June 24, 2009
Sorry I haven’t posted lately. My New York visit is consuming most of my time and all of my energy. I’ve only been able to make scattered notes; there’s no chance of actual writing for the duration. I should get back to my regular grumpy posts again soon.
A research trip
June 20, 2009
Really.
I’ll be on a plane winging my way from the middle of the U.S. to New York City today for a week’s stay. Ostensibly it’s to see my daughter and son-in-law (and grandpuppy) plus all of the sights, but really it’s for research purposes. Really.
My novel, The Sleep of Reason, takes place in New York. [...]
Going from 1st to 3rd person narration
June 16, 2009
I’m not sure how I’m going to do this, mechanically I mean. I’ll have the whole of The Sleep of Reason written in first-person narration, and I’ll want to rewrite it in third person. So how will I do that?
Will I read one paragraph and write the revised paragraph immediately below it on the screen?
Should [...]
Chapter 18 emerges
June 15, 2009
After much too long away, I have resumed work on The Sleep of Reason, making a fine start on Chapter 18. It is an aftermath chapter, the (false) climax of the story having come in Chapter 17. So I’m figuratively cleaning up the details (just as my protagonist is literally doing the same) and setting [...]
More Meta Musing
June 12, 2009
Okay, I’ve finally finished plowing through my old posts to add tags and categories so that your edification via my gracious thoughts can be more systematic.
Boy do I have a lot of strong opinions about stuff. I’d forgotten that I’d made many of my points, and while I still agree with them, I don’t think [...]
Anniversary, of another sort
June 4, 2009
Going back through this humble blog to put my posts into more specific categories, I found that it was a year ago today that I began writing The Sleep of Reason in earnest. I had thought that I’d started a couple of months earlier than that, but that doesn’t matter.
This novel had actually come into [...]
