What Does It Take To Be An Effective Writer?
Anyone can learn to be an effective writer. Colleges are full of creative writing courses turning out effective writers. A better question would be, can one learn to be an affective writer.
Writing On The Go
Mobile gear means we don’t have to stay home to get work done, so sometimes we don’t. Our files are still on our server at home and we access them just as we would if they were on Drive or Dropbox. These early sessions mostly consist of Michael and I writing new solo scenes for insertion into the manuscript, or […]
First Cut, Second Draft
As the title foretells, as of tonight we officially have a second draft for Dead Man’s Trigger. It is a “whirligig of time,” as the old playwright wrote, and well it should be. Everything in Iris’ world turns inside-out, by the end of it. My eyeballs are furry. I can’t write fast enough. Is it Dead Man’s Trigger, yet? AE […]
A Late Night Session
Michael and I worked into the night, last night, but we got the scene list done for the front end of Dead Man’s Trigger. Thinking. Feeling. Oh, okay. “Scheming and plotting,” if you’re going to be persnickety about it. Call it whatever you want, I don’t mind. Today, I get to resume WRITING the story. I couldn’t be any happier. […]
Status Update: Dead Man’s Trigger
Michael and I are well into the second hack of this manuscript. We’re building a new scene list. We’ve tagged the scenes that don’t work (i.e, most of them, but it’s still very first-drafty!) with keywords that tell us how to rewrite them, later . We’ve put all edged implements under lock and key for the duration. Here’s a […]
A World of Words
I should have a link here for you to read a wiki entry about alchemy and its relationship to magic on Menelon, but that article isn’t ready yet. Stay tuned. AE Matson is an author, and Creative Director, at Metaphor Publications. She’s also a textile fiend, SFGiants fan, aspiring Buddha, RPGer, tech-geeky, crone, corsair. It’s all about the stories. What’s […]
Magical Worlds
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. – Salman Rushdie Coming in April/May 2015.
