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Grateful & Galvanized1 comment

stephenreese wrote 3 months ago: First week of work on Book Two gone and done, with 5,000 or so new words. Heard back on the outstand … more →

Tags: Updates, Process, Inspiration, Manuscript, Characters, Emotional, draft, Rewriting, query

Go

stephenreese wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday was my official Day One (of work) for Book Two. I’ve been outlining and writing thro … more →

Tags: Updates, Process, Query Letter, Beginnings, draft, query

A New Beginning

stephenreese wrote 7 months ago: …in a couple different ways. I’ve been rewriting the opening of book one. And in outlini … more →

Tags: Updates, Process, Inspiration, Technique, Query Letter, Thinking, Beginnings, Rewriting

Readers & Writers

stephenreese wrote 11 months ago: Long time no post. Lots of work on the manuscript, not only by me but also my cadre of kind and cari … more →

Tags: Critique, Process, Updates, draft, Editing, End, Manuscript, Novel, Query Letter

And So It Ends2 comments

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: W00t! I made my 29 October deadline for draft two! World Fantasy in Cowtown was a blast! Fifteen cop … more →

Tags: Updates, Critique, readers, draft, Add new tag, query

Addition & Deletion

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: It’s been a trying time for me, but the novel’s helped keep my head above water. The fir … more →

Tags: Updates, Inspiration, Manuscript, Editing, Emotional, readers, draft, Rewriting

Contract Work

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Logged about four hours today, rewriting the first two pages from scratch, editing and tightening as … more →

Tags: Updates, Technique, Editing, Characters, Beginnings, Screenwriting

Naming Names1 comment

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: I haven’t had a good chunk of uninterrupted time in the weekday evenings to knuckle down on th … more →

Tags: Updates, Technique, Characters, names, China Mieville, Fantasy

And So It Begins

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: This weekend the only living creatures I interacted with outside the interwebs were the Mom (it bein … more →

Tags: Updates, Process, Manuscript, Rewriting, Quotations, paragraphs, Chapters

Part The Final

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Well, that’s that. I made it to the end. The book is sad, strange, and, I suspect, impossible … more →

Tags: Updates, Insecurity, Emotional, Add new tag, End, book

Part The Fourth

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Took a look through some of the trickier material near the end of the book last night, with Guinness … more →

Tags: Updates, End

Part The Third

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: It’s possible I overreacted. Guess what I found out when I crossed the halfway point reading t … more →

Tags: Updates, Process, Insecurity, Manuscript, Novel, draft, Rewriting

Part The Second1 comment

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: I knew it would be bad. But I didn’t know it would be this bad. That light-hearted, ‘eve … more →

Tags: Updates, Insecurity, Manuscript, Characters, Novel, draft, Rewriting, Add new tag, Stephen King

Part The First

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Right then. I read the first third of the manuscript last night. As expected, it’s a mess. Wha … more →

Tags: Updates, Manuscript, Novel, Add new tag

Plot Thickener

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Okay, I’m ready. Or nearly so. I look back at this month’s measly two posts and realize … more →

Tags: Updates, draft, Editing, Mixing, Novel, Running, @ vacation

Chaps. 1 to 7

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: Some writers with links in my blogroll at right have been posting about the number of novels they wr … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Authors, Clive Barker, cyberpunk, Dante, Douglas Coupland, Dragonlance, Fighting Fantasy, J.D Salinger

Intermission

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: It was a beautiful spring day. I went for my first bike ride of the year. Skidded through some lefto … more →

Tags: Updates, Books, Music, Query Letter, Editing, Emotional, Novel, @ vacation, draft

About The Authors1 comment

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: So, says Mr Self-Critical, why bother writing a site about writing? Who’s gonna read the thing … more →

Tags: Inspiration, mr self-critical, Blogroll, elizabeth bear, terry rossio, Dan Simmons, rick kleffel, ted elliott, Authors

Order & Chaos

stephenreese wrote 1 year ago: I spent Easter Sunday hanging out with a fellow writer. Such is a prescription for day-end whiplash, … more →

Tags: Process, Manuscript, Editing, Characters, Novel, Drama


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