Category Archives: --Novel

Novels on the Brain

6/20/2009 – 7:55 am

Summertime means a break a from school and allows for brain to dwell on things not (directly) related to academics. Dwelling is not always a good thing since it usually equates to keeping me from sleeping, either getting me out of bed late and night or too early in the morn because the brain is [...]

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But That’s Not What I Meant…

6/1/2009 – 10:14 am

The other day I posted some brief thoughts on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, to which I received an interesting (and troubling) response. Catherynne’s take on Kavalier and Clay is perfectly justified and what I find disturbing is that I didn’t notice it as much as I should [...]

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Declining Fortunes

8/22/2008 – 11:34 pm

Whew. Two eight-hour days of straight TA orientation is fairly brutal. We have the weekend to recuperate (with homework of course) followed by two more days next week, plus an extra-special bonus session on Wednesday. And I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that even with all of this training, you just have to stumble into [...]

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Novelty & Who Cormac is Voting For

7/31/2008 – 9:58 am

I finished the first round of revisions to my novel Kingdoms of Glass and Steel yesterday, bringing the overall word count up about 13K words, from 81,333 to 94,429. Honestly, I underestimated how long revisions would take and I hope round three (which yes, is totally necessary) doesn’t take as long. I think I have [...]

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Post-Fourth Blues

7/7/2008 – 10:18 am

We spent a lovely weekend in the U.P. with friends and friends of friends featuring multiple late nights, sunning, napping, and generally putting the brain brake in park. It’s difficult to get the sluggish thing moving again, especially on a sour, gray day after so many sunny blue ones.
I heard this morning that Tom Disch [...]

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A Post Not About Soccer

6/27/2008 – 10:49 am

After two weeks of non-stop soccer-watching bliss, it’s all coming to an end on Sunday. I would suggest that this would lead to an upturn in productivity but I just got GTA 4 in the mail yesterday, having bought it on eBay for $35…

After a month-long hiatus, I listened to the second half of Owen [...]

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Scattershot Saturday Post

9/22/2007 – 7:36 pm

Is Rafa Benitez mad? Or does he just not want to win the Premier League? Why he doesn’t field an understrength team against European minnows in the more-forgiving Champions League as opposed to the intensely more competitive every-game-counts Premier League, I don’t know. Liverpool are in decent form. Why tinker?
Did [...]

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81,333

7/22/2007 – 10:22 pm

Yeah, so that whole novel thing is now done. 81,333 words, 268 pages. Most of those words need a lot of work but at least it has beginning, middle, and end. The revisions begin, oh, tomorrow.
I started with an 8800-word short story and wrote about 10K words a week for eight [...]

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Hear Ye All Chickens Who Have Yet to be Hatched: Consider Yourselves Counted!

7/18/2007 – 1:46 pm

Well, the novel stands at 77K words and is within a hair of being finished. This first draft will be about 80K, give or take a couple thousand words, which was the goal. Kinda creepy that I wanted to write about 80K words, didn’t really know where the story was going to [...]

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Don’t You Hate It When…

7/16/2007 – 10:04 am

Don’t you hate it when you’re 70K words into your novel and just then figure out what the book is really about?
I haven’t been able to write much in the last week or so because I didn’t know where the story went. The big climactic section has to more or less make sense [...]

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