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Drafts Bin Rescues: Writing Things – Part (te)N
When I started The Wimsel Loop, I only knew more-or-less two things about it: it somehow involves a loop, and it will accept most of what I submit to it for consideration. That was certainly something – and so I started something, more specifically. Doodles & Directions I like to draw pictures. My favourite kind…
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Something About Cider
My backyard neighbour and alter-ego B.B. Butterwell recently wrote a short story and made it public domain by using a Creative Commons “Zero” license. I confirmed that they had meant to do this by asking the border squirrels (whom I mostly trust) to go ask B if they were certain that they knew what Creative…
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Still Here, Quite Still
Some days I feel I have so much to say that it amounts to having nothing much to say. Most of the time I write about trying to write, or having nothing to write, or changing my mind about what is worth writing about. I think this is a flavour of depression but maybe I…
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Writing Things, Part 8
I just re-read part 7 of this series, looking for clues from earlier iterations of myself about what we’ve been trying to do together all this time. It’s fitting that I mention sketchbooks so much in that last episode, because that scattering collection of thoughts has certainly become a great and growing ally and nemesis…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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14: How to Approach a Darkness
Wherein Ani Morgan leaves home again, and Maevis shows Olivia a dancing fox.
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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…
The Wimsel Loop
teeny tall tales and occasional doodles
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