Friday, February 20, 2009

in which: i am alive, well, and killing my characters.

I’m not a mass murderer, I’m a writer!—Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, of course!

Well, then. Here I am at last—more technical difficulties yesterday… actually, if you knew me, you’d realize it’s a small miracle that I don’t have more technical difficulties than I already do. (I get lost dealing with my sister’s iPod. Yes. Really.)

So after my brief skirmish with stomach flu, and a rotten writing week (last week, no energy, very few words), I rounded the corner into Monday. Cleared my schedule, just to focus on writing, to get back on track… and it was terrible. Not a good thought in my head.

(Note to self: when you make all your characters smile and laugh and turn slowly and you bloat their speech with adverbs? You’re stalling. And you don’t know what the scene is about.)

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 02/20 at 01:09 PM
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