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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way." -Ernest Hemingway

Month: March, 2010

MacIntosh

I stumbled onto this video a while back. With the launch of the iPad imminent, I thought it was as good a time as any to drag it out.

Bad Things Are Sometimes the Best Things

For instance, it has become perfectly normal for me to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by watching Leprechaun 4: In Space. It’s easy to see why I love the film. First of all, it’s in space – wait, let me finish.

Killing My (Fictional) Babies

The process of killing a character is interesting. You create these souls from scratch and build them into recognizable entities. If you do your job right, they are distinct from one another and have their own lives within your tale. Making the decision to end those lives is not easy, especially when you think about how their survival would affect the story that you’re crafting.

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Finishing It

I’ve reached that stage in the creative process where, on the verge of finishing draft one of the novel, I find myself struggling to force out the final sixty or so pages. I think the problem is twofold: first, I’ve already unintentionally turned my mind toward the first revision. It’s impossible not to think about [...]