I'm trying a new approach, we'll label it How I Write Method 230. As most of you know, I had a wander along the corridors of Writers Block a couple of weeks ago and to help combat it (and to ensure I don't sit down to a blank screen), I'm building my ideas before I start to write them. And then, in the case of my just completed short story (Glimpses of Beauty through Bleached Bone - 3700 words), I may write some stories out of order. That is, when I'm stuck, I'm jumping to another scene where I know what happens. It worked for Beauty. So today, I am working on building a new short story something to do with perfume and balloons and the Devil.
In other news, there are just 3 copies of Nowhere Hall left. Thank you so much to everyone who has pre-ordered the chapbook. Three copies!!! Scratch that, Nowhere Hall has SOLD OUT! I think I owe quite a few people a drink should I ever meet them.
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And then there were two copies left.... =)
What works, works. Writer's block be damned! (Give it one of those devilish balloons)
And then there was a very lonely copy waiting to find a good home... =D
Congrats on the success of Nowhere Hall, Cate!
Simon, you are a marketing machine.
True, Aaron.
Thanks, Mike. :D
Congrats on the sell out! Supremely super! :-P
I don't think I'd have the guts to try different ways of writing. I do it the way I do it, and I think I'm stuck doing it this way for better or worse.
Thanks, Anthony. I say go with whatever works for you.
Building ideas? How does that work, Cate? I love hearing about process.
Woot! Luckily I got in and pre-ordered mine yesterday.
Woot! : )
It usually involves listening to music, scribbling notes and hoping it all makes sense, Deborah.
Thanks, Danielle
:D Natalie
I cannot WAIT to get my copy--also, glad I was around for like the TWO DAYS before it sold out. I would've been pissed to miss it :D
Yay!
I've tried that jump-around approach before, and it does work. Sometimes I get bogged down in transitions. Jumping to the next scene takes care of that!
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