Meet the Writing Cast

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I’ve so far introduced you guys to ED, the editing monster and the Monster That Must Not Be Named, or TMTMNBN for short.

Now’s the time to reveal my madness in its entirety. Brace yourselves.

Setting: Writer’s workplace (messy bed, NOT desk)

Time: An hour after the writer was supposed to sit down and write. First sign of the procrastination gene. You’ll see plenty more.

Things done: Tidied room; arranged notes; bought more note-cards and markers; read another vampire book; read some sex manual for fun; made coffee and drank it all; brainstormed a shopping list; had an idea but lost it due to lack of pens (as if ALL the pens in the room had found their own hiding place); etc.

Things NOT done: Writing the next chapter of WIP.

Mood: Undecided, bordering on funny (as usual).

The cast (in order of appearance):

Blogging to Be Remembered

So I’ve already talked about hooking them readers with a good blurb here. Today I’ll talk about writing style. It’s related to my American Idol rant where I said that every good artist should possess three qualities: gift, style, and craft. In this order actually.

Briefly, we all have the gift of our discipline. Style is the individual voice that permeates your art. Craft is the set of skills you develop to realize those things. It’s hard for me to say which the most important is. All I know is: you need to have all three to be great.

Now then. I read a blog post the other day on Dan Cavallari’s blog, which started off by referring to a post where a girl had mentioned she hadn’t written a word in six months. But he also said he didn’t remember where he’d read this (at the time) and that got me thinking. How many blog posts do you read every day? How many do you comment on? How much do you like each of those? And most importantly, how many of them can you recall later?