New stuff added to "Pages" tabs

"Plot Points and Pacing and Getting Unstuck," which I wrote for A. C. Grant's Creative Writing Toolbox, has just been added to my Revision Strategies page.  About two weeks ago, I added "Female Characters and the Readers Who Love Them" to the Characterizations page.  The characterizations page has pictures now as well, mainly because the one of Agatha Heterodyne was too good not to include, so I had to add the ones of Gregory Peck and Alan Rickman as the characters Atticus Finch and Severus Snape.

The characterizations posts were sort of a tangent for A. C.'s blog, and once I got started, it was like a runaway train.  If only my fiction writing went so smoothly.

I've found a couple of interesting articles on female characterizations.  Give me some time to write a decent post on them.

See you next week.

I got nothin'

I'm currently blocked.  But Neil Gaiman isn't.  I can't wait to read whatever it is he's working on.

Full post here.

An excerpt:


It's a weird thing, writing.


Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day.  You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you'll be going on your walk.


And that's wonderful.


Sometimes it's like driving through fog. You can't really see where you're going.  You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you're probably still on the road, and if you drive slowly and keep your headlamps lowered you'll still get where you were going.


And that's hard while you're doing it, but satisfying at the end of a day like that, where you look down and you got 1500 words that didn't exist in that order down on paper, half of what you'd get on a good day, and you drove slowly, but you drove.


And sometimes you come out of the fog into clarity, and you can see just what you're doing and where you're going, and you couldn't see or know any of that five minutes before.


And that's magic.


The rest of the post goes on to say that his current project is taking a different direction from where he'd originally planned.

It's exciting and scary to stare into the abyss, even if you see the other side. How awesome to trust the magic.

I'm not there yet.  But after some research and a few outlines, and a cure for insomnia, maybe I will be.

Thanks for stopping by.