Scarlet
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This novel got put on the backburner for me because my wife decided she wanted to write it. She got the fire, the inspiration! And she wrote a lot. But the process also wore on her. She’s not a writer and so I think the process just became intimidating. And while she’s not giving up…
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Because I have other projects I’m working on, I haven’t been working as hard or fast on this as my wife would like, but I jumped back into it last night and now again today. We got some interesting feedback from my sister in law, though. While I was aiming for lush, evocative prose, trying…
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The prologue has changed dramatically since posting it in here, which will someday make for an interesting point of contrast. I dropped a character from the novel, exchanged him with one who will be central to the rest of the book, and also beefed up most of what was there. The original prologue was about…
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What’s this? Am I not already writing a novel? Well, yes, but I want to tell you a bit about this new novel. I suppose you could say this blog is an attempt at transparency, at explicating what it means to be a writer, at what goes into writing books. My wife is not a…