The Next Novel
One send-off for a short story, another send-off for myself, back into the murky world of the work in progress
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I said last week that, as I see it, my main job is to be the person I need to be to write the story I want to write. This is something that is true for…
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The first draft of the other project is finished, and I finally feel like I can get back to the novel! There will be more work on this other thing, of …
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I am writing again. I wasn’t worried about the not-writing, because I knew I would settle back into the routine soon. Until the last month, I have writ…
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I am not writing right now. This is highly unusual for me, because I have, for years, written every day. I have no doubt that I will fall back into tha…
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I had a revelation about the novel project the other night. I was talking to a new neighbor who is a video game designer and asking him all sorts of qu…
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I have been experimenting with other media, making things not for public consumption (except for what I share here, I guess) but mainly just for myself…
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The kid’s sickness turned into the whole family’s sickness, as they do, and before I knew it, I’d gone two weeks without touching the world of my novel…
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