So, this week…finishing my novel (or posting too much. One or the other.) Next week, or whenever I finish, I’d like to try to take my house back. I have this inane idea that I’d like to use my dining room table for…dining. Now, I know that sounds outrageous. Who would not want to sit…
Finally, my copy of Ghost Story arrived!!! Only I am half a chapter away from finishing my novel, so I really can’t start reading it now. I’ve got to get the novel finished (We’re talking about three scenes, for gosh sakes!) before I can start reading. Up until today, I had the best of both…
Kestrel Lessingham, in all his glory as drawn by John C. Wright For three weeks now, I’ve been on the last two chapters of my novel. Not because I haven’t written much in the last three weeks, quite the contrary—I’ve been writing with every free moment, putting other things, like feeding the children,…
…that St. Peter had a dream that said it was okay to eat unclean food…so now we can eat stuff that has fallen on the floor.
Recently, I was speaking with my son and I said: “You don’t just march to a different drummer, you have your entire own band!” This is completely true, though I should add that his is a good band. Still, it does not even play the same kind of music as anyone else’s. But this got…
Hmm… The Creators of Worlds?
So…normally, titles are not a problem for me. Heck, I even title my chapters, and people complement me on the amusing or intriguing chapter names. But I cannot for the life of me come up with a title for this current book. For the last 25 years, I’ve assumed it was going to be called:…
So, I realized one reason I was having trouble saying what the plot was for Book One was because I had not emphasized the plot of the first book over and above the other threads of the story (plots to be resolved in later books.) I went back and did this, now the book is…
Borders is officially going under. They are closing all their stores. This is very sad.
So after bellyaching yesterday and writing a Wright’s Writing Corner instead of my scene as a form of procrastination, I wrote a whole nine page chapter. See…if you just look at that page long enough…