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A sure sign that I’ve lost my way is that I start to think about going to law school. It happened again last month, so I spent some time re-examining my goals last week. I reached a few conclusions: 1. I reminded myself that I’m not writing fiction for the money. That’s not to say [...]

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Three weeks since I last posted. I hadn’t intended to let that much time pass, but fiction outranks blogging and I haven’t had enough time for fiction lately. This morning, I’m too tired to work on the novella, so I blog instead. My accomplishments lately have been meager, but since the last blog entry, I [...]

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Finished it this morning. It’s pretty solid, but of course I’ll revise it before I start working on the manuscript. That will happen in the spring, after I revise SHE.

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A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I’d misunderstood the motivation of the second viewpoint character for NHI. Several scenes I’d designed for him bordered on the “idiot plot”–you know, the character acts like an idiot because the plot requires it. Those scenes influenced the main plot, which made many of its scenes less [...]

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After my last post, I did some soul-searching about whether I should stop working on NHI. After isolating and rejecting reasons that had more to do with fear than with craft, I was still left with two very good reasons to put NHI aside. Research. I wasn’t kidding when I wrote that a lot of [...]

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