http://klaatu.blogsome.com An Olympia Writer Ruminates Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:09:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m moving my blog entries to my FaceBook page. Getting tired of keeping two sites. http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/20/keep-on-wrting/ The first draft is humming now. Since I kept flipping back from the FD to the outline to copy in stuff I’d already written, I decide to spend my writing time Friday moving everything from the outline into the FD that appeared to still work. What a job. But interesting. ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/20/30/ Made very good progress yesterday. Have nearly 5,400 word of the first draft down. And it looks pretty good too. . .for a first draft. Everything seems to be working. The circles of Hell give me a nice framework to initially hang the story on. The unfolding backstory of a ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/19/escalation-of-humor-and-conflict/   Another 1,500 words yesterday, 3,000 total. Nearly enough words/day to finish the 50k first draft in 30 days. Cindy has turned out to be the key to the story. It’s still Price’s story, but I can see how her antics—trying to keep Price from finding Alice—are going to be what makes ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/18/first-draft-day-3/ I started the first draft this morning shortly after the previous post. It all fell together so neatly after I realized Cindy would be the humor that would tie the story together. I wrote over 1,500 in just a couple hours. Looks like I’m on my way!  http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/16/first-draft/ Excellent, excellent news this morning. I found the humor in the story! Spent time this morning fixing the outline. Then I spent a little more time imagining the story. The addition of Cindy as the primary antagonist makes so much sense. She works perfectly into the plot. In fact, her ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/16/the-storys-humor-finally/ I feel there’s lots of potential for a story in what I have put together for The Year. I’m afraid I’m wasting my time though. If I actually knew how or had the talent to write humor (or writing talent at all), it might work. I’m going to think hard about it this ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/15/25/ Working on the outline the last couple days, the character of Alice–Price’s ex-lover who he is searching for to ask her forgiveness–is being built up with the expectation that she is trying to avoid him and spreading rumors as she goes. However, at the end of the story I discovered ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/14/the-antagonist/ So, to bring you up-to-date, I finished an 87,000 word novel, UFR, last October. A sysnopsis can be see on my website, www.gearybuxton.net.  Shortly after that my world spun into confusion and disorder. Two weeks ago, I finally got around to looking at SF book publisher guidelines, and discovered that DAW ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/13/23/   Had some good ideas yesterday I think will help focus the story. Here what I wrote in the outline: BACKSTORY:  Price was a key figure in an arts center development project. He got all his theater friends to invest. But one of the partners is an ex-lover who still carries a torch ... http://klaatu.blogsome.com/2009/06/13/21/