It has become clear to me over the past couple of weeks that my writing methodology has become dysfunctional.
I have attention deficit disorder. I have it badly enough that it overlaps with Asperger's, although I'm not an aspy according to my doc, I just have really annoying ADD. I mean,
really annoying. We joke about it, we ADD folks, calling it
2008-06-11 09:10:59 | | Posted by Elf SternbergSigh. I had this "great idea" for re-writing
Honest Impulses as one of the Purpose Wars novels, the first one, in fact, and the novel was going along really well until I re-read the first draft.
There's a phrase in writing called "kill your babies." It means, figuratively, to double-check that your favorite scenes are actually serving the story and, if t...
2008-06-02 10:06:25 | | Posted by Elf Sternberg
Hey, Elf," Muse said.
"Yah?"
"How would the military treat Bastet? Does the knowledge that, so far, medicine has failed to find a way to extend their lifespans beyond 45 while everyone else is living to 70 affect the way people treat them? What's their relationship in the US with the gay community? How about with the black community, since they were both emancipated by...
2008-05-14 16:24:11 | | Posted by Elf Sternberg
"Muse, no."
"But I've got it. Really, I do! See, Gabriel's supposed to be the next Adam, a kind of posthuman Adam. It would work, wouldn't it? Remember Lucifer's promise at the end of Repentance? It would work. See, Gabriel's supposed to progenitate-- is that a word? It is now!-- "
"Muse, please!" I'm wailing at her.
"You said you wanted an ending, didn't you? Anywa...
2008-04-04 21:55:37 | | Posted by Elf Sternberg
Last night I sat down to write one of the closing chapters of
Jera's Quest, a sort-of prequel to the next Aimee novel, and as I was working my way through a critical scene, the first face-to-face meeting of Princess Jera with the long-lost Prince Niav, whom she has just rescued and about whom there is much contention among the Imperial factions, both within her cour...
2008-02-27 12:24:02 | | Posted by Elf Sternberg