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I figured out my middle/ending for The Keyman, who transformed to Keyboy somewhere along the road. That’s most of what I’ve done for the last few days. It’s actually weird, how this story evolved from a dream I had, a very vivid, movie-like dream. I woke up and typed it in a new document. Then, [...]

This has been a big day for me. I wrote a lot, especially the Keyman (who won’t be Keyman after all, but that’s beside the point), and did some 500+ words on Vega, and arrived at the short sharp understanding of what my NaNoWriMo novel will really be about, something that has bugged me for [...]

Yesterday, I met a Latvian writer friend (well, he’s actually a poet but he is considering writing prose once he “figures out how”) and we shared a half an hour or hour in a mutual “oh and I read this book, it’s a *bible*, I tell you” and “I’ll give you that one to read, [...]

I have written novels before, but never before have I had the ending to tie together so smoothly. Usually, I just discarded the lesser threads along the way, assuming they weren’t important enough, or ended with a protagonist deciding he didn’t care about anything else than a single problem he was having, something in that [...]

Yesterday, after doing my 1K (and moving the aquarium and flowers to my new apartment) I stole some pleasure time with a Moleskine notebook and a real fountain pen. Writing a story this way is definitely different from writing on computer. For one thing, I can comfortably jot down a sentence or two in the [...]