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  • Prompted to Performing

    Prompted to Performing

    What’s your dream job? The house is quiet, and I’m afraid to speak. As I awoke from a nap, I received a newsletter, which contained a story, which led me to a blog, which triggered the website to tell my phone to suggest that we install an app… And so here we are – the […]

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    Mike McGraw

    January 23, 2023
    Journal, Uncategorized
    ai, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1823, dream jobs, writing
  • Writing Things, Part 7

    Last time I wrote here about writing, I made some constraint-based creative decisions about how time progresses in my speculative fiction novel (which, fittingly, is itself still pretty speculative). This time, I struggle to decide what to write about writing, and succeed in writing some words. Taking Breaks If I were the sort of writer […]

    Mike McGraw

    November 5, 2022
    Journal
    fiction, process, Timeliness, writing
  • Writing Things, Part 6

    Spoilers Ahead Last time I wrote here about writing, I promised myself in front of other people that I’d do an outline. Well, I’m getting to it. Counting Words Every time I re-read my chapters, I’m struck by all the words. I mean, I use a lot of words. I like repeating things. Like you […]

    Mike McGraw

    September 2, 2022
    Journal
    fiction, outlines, plot, process, spoilers, writers block, writing
  • Writing Things, Part 5

    Spoilers Abound In the latest chapter, I introduce a lot of cussing. I never claimed the book wouldn’t involve cussing, but I admit I didn’t really warn the reader there would be language, either. I don’t know if this matters. Maeve’s mother Ani is not Maeve – she’s another hero of another story, and how […]

    Mike McGraw

    August 20, 2022
    Journal
    outlines, plot, process, spoilers, writing
  • 14: How to Approach a Darkness

    14: How to Approach a Darkness

    Wherein Ani Morgan leaves home again, and Maevis shows Olivia a dancing fox.

    bbbutterwell

    August 14, 2022
    Book
    bbbutterwell, CC-BY-SA, fantasy, fiction
  • Writing Things, Part 4

    In this Writing Things series, I talk about the process of trying to complete slowly, successfully completing my first book. In writing the 12th book chapter, Crossroads, I had come to a crossroads in my thinking about the story. Maybe it was an act of self-hypnotism: I named the chapter and then the chapter’s name […]

    Mike McGraw

    August 13, 2022
    Journal
    interconnectedness, process, spoilers, writing
  • 13: Crossroads

    13: Crossroads

    Wherein Bardlii and Fenrii accompany a company of soldiers, and in the midst of hiding from them, discuss Wizardry.

    bbbutterwell

    August 10, 2022
    Book
    bbbutterwell, CC-BY-SA, fantasy, fiction
  • 11: Uncles & Mothers

    11: Uncles & Mothers

    Wherein Maevis retreats into the Curling Room, and meets Liz, in the Past.

    bbbutterwell

    August 7, 2022
    Book
    bbbutterwell, CC-BY-SA, fantasy, fiction
  • 10: Olives & Blueberries

    10: Olives & Blueberries

    Wherein Maevis retreats into the Curling Room, and meets Liz, in the Past.

    bbbutterwell

    July 17, 2022
    Book
    bbbutterwell, CC-BY-SA, fantasy, fiction
  • Writing Things, Part 3

    The Spoiler Room… I’m going to pretend missing two posts of my book (I was trying to consistently post on Sundays and Wednesdays) was just me taking a conscious break, rather than me missing two self-imposed deadlines in a row. I’m not even behind in writing anything new – just behind in editing and posting […]

    Mike McGraw

    July 14, 2022
    Journal
    interconnectedness, process, spoilers, writing
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