Office by Alex Penny
This blog has recently changed purposes accidentally. I used to use it as a Writing-Journal, but since then I’ve used it as more of a place to put to do lists. I still intend to do this as I think it’s useful for getting myself organized, but I’m going to make it more themed around my school life and my personal organization, meaning this will be a ‘personal blog’ with a strong English/Philosophy/Creative Writing theme, most likely.
If you find it interesting, please feel free to follow/remain a follower, but this blog is more for myself than for followers.
Kurt Vonnegut lectures on the shape of stories
I wish I’d had Vonnegut as a professor. Legend.
- Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
- Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
- Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones…
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Gary Provost (via qmsd)
This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.
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From The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislavic
Every heard of Daniel Torday? Nope, me neither. At least I hadn’t, until I happened upon the website of independent publisher Nouvella books.
This was back in February. Since then I’ve spoken to him a couple of times on Twitter. He’s nice. The head of Creative Writing at a college in…
Just bought myself a copy of this :)
This blog has recently changed purposes accidentally. I used to use it as a Writing-Journal, but since then I’ve used it as more of a place to put to do lists. I still intend to do this as I think it’s useful for getting myself organized, but I’m going to make it more themed around my school life and my personal organization, meaning this will be a ‘personal blog’ with a strong English/Philosophy/Creative Writing theme, most likely.
If you find it interesting, please feel free to follow/remain a follower, but this blog is more for myself than for followers.
In my last post, I set several deadlines.
Two of them were…
Fixing the timeline with all existing events: 20th June 2011 Plan new events, plots and cons into this new time frame: 23rd June 201 I believe that I have now completed both of these. Whilst I am not entirely happy with the way that a load of cons seem to happen towards the end without the great detail of the initial few but, for now, I can’t see any way round that. When this draft is finished, if the wordcount is still low, I may revisit this issue.
But for now, I am on track. :)
I find deadlines very useful for my writing, as it puts me in the state of mind in which I get things done. I am publicly posting these, and then adding posts to my queue with these specific dates to check on myself that I’ve actually done the tasks. Any support would be gratefully received.
Structure
Fixing the timeline with all existing events: 20th June 2011
Plan new events, plots and cons into this new time frame: 23rd June 2011
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Writing
Finish Second Draft: October 17th 2011
Go through 9 Chapters already written making the needed changes due to structure: October 30th 2011
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Finished, Polished Novel
April 15th, 2012.
