Image by eddyfate via Flickr This weekend I finally took all of the brainstorming I’ve done for Night Fall and starting turning it into an outline. I used a modified version of the Snowflake Method for plotting. Last week I started with a one-sentence"elevator pitch" for the book, and expanded that into a paragraph of five sentences, making sure [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr First off, I decided to write Night Fall, the parody novel of female vampire hunter "bad girl" protagonists, featuring Katrina Night. I even mocked up a fake book cover last week and posted it on Flickr, to help me visualize the book itself more clearly. I covered the various reasons [...]
Image by thinkpanama via Flickr The check-up with the surgeon’s office was very short — mostly it was a cleaning of the extraction sites and a quick lesson in how to do it myself (twice a day). The nurse told me that actually I’m doing really well — many patients can’t really even open their mouths [...]
Image via Wikipedia Tuesday night, while I was playing Brutal Legend, I was struck with sudden and massive nausea. I went to lie down for a bit. I ate a little, and that seemed to help, but I went to bed very early. I woke up nearly 12 hours later, still nauseous and still exhausted, so I took another sick day from [...]
Image via Wikipedia I realized that while I mentioned this obliquely, I haven’t actually talked about my recent surgery, or why I needed to have it. Let me correct that oversight now. About a month ago, I went to a new dentist for a (long overdue) checkup. She took some X-rays, and said that all four of my wisdom teeth are [...]
I looked over the poll results, and I did a lot of thinking about what I really want to write. (I even added a novel idea that I forgot about, got attached to it for a while, and then ultimately cut it.) Ultimately, I told myself that there’s a decent chance that all of those will get written at some point, [...]
Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there. Image by nataliesap via Flickr A few quick things that Whitechapel readers might be interested in. Shadow Freak is the sorry bastard lucky winner of the Agent Mission contest. He (or someone with his name, at [...]