Two weeks to go. 10x10 contest sponsored by me and Book Bloggers' Collaborative. The writing prompt is simply "animal". For details, visit:
http://bookbloggerscollaborative.com/10x10-writing-contest-sponsored-by-thepoet86/
If you speak a language and can count to ten, please participate.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The Ten-By-Ten Page
Went digging through some old files.
NEVER throw away those scraps of paper you scribble on.
I found a folder full of hand-written notes on the back of restaurant menus, notepads, spiral notebook pages, a chunk of corrugated cardboard. Some things printed off a very old computer. Some things done on my typewriter.
Lots of it was early Cathartes Aura stuff. Much before I even decided upon a turkey vulture narrator. Some featured a vulture with a much more malevolent attitude than the one that made it into my books. The narrator was anxiously waiting for victims to fall and sometimes helping them fail.
Also I dug up two early characters: Harald and Sal. They are a comic yet vicious duo, joking along foolishly until they find someone who has something they want. Then they are swift and violent.
I stumbled upon a crazy project I'd begun and never finished called "Ship of Fools" involving a bus, not a ship, full of lunatic characters on a lunatic ride and a captain (driver) who never spoke, but could twist the lug-nuts from the wheels with his bare hands.
Encountered a frustrated series of poems titled "Fuck Money" with a ten syllable scheme that was an early ancestor of my favorite 10x10 form.
Some of this stuff I've mentioned was sitting in my drawer in perfect 10x10 and I've put some on the page. A stack of it is currently sitting at my right and I'll type it in soon.
May need another page for the really random stuff.
Ten-By-Ten Page
NEVER throw away those scraps of paper you scribble on.
I found a folder full of hand-written notes on the back of restaurant menus, notepads, spiral notebook pages, a chunk of corrugated cardboard. Some things printed off a very old computer. Some things done on my typewriter.
Lots of it was early Cathartes Aura stuff. Much before I even decided upon a turkey vulture narrator. Some featured a vulture with a much more malevolent attitude than the one that made it into my books. The narrator was anxiously waiting for victims to fall and sometimes helping them fail.
Also I dug up two early characters: Harald and Sal. They are a comic yet vicious duo, joking along foolishly until they find someone who has something they want. Then they are swift and violent.
I stumbled upon a crazy project I'd begun and never finished called "Ship of Fools" involving a bus, not a ship, full of lunatic characters on a lunatic ride and a captain (driver) who never spoke, but could twist the lug-nuts from the wheels with his bare hands.
Encountered a frustrated series of poems titled "Fuck Money" with a ten syllable scheme that was an early ancestor of my favorite 10x10 form.
Some of this stuff I've mentioned was sitting in my drawer in perfect 10x10 and I've put some on the page. A stack of it is currently sitting at my right and I'll type it in soon.
May need another page for the really random stuff.
Ten-By-Ten Page
My goodness, has it been three weeks since I made a post? Not that I've been lazy. I've been busy.
My Gorgeous Illustrator and I have an infant in the house to go along with our toddler. Enough said. That's been taking up a lot of time and energy. I find it even more difficult to utilize that 2am to 4am writing slot I have relied upon.
I've been being social, at least in the social media sense of the word.
My How to Write a Ten-by-Ten post has been featured at:
Alchemy of Scrawl
and
Caron Rider's Blog
As part of the launch of Pavarti K. Tyler's Shadow on the Wall I wrote a post on Superman.
I exchanged interviews with Laura Roberts from Black Heart Magazine.
I've had a few good reviews at Amazon, Smashwords, and Goodreads.
And Book Bloggers' Collaborative is hosting a Ten-By-Ten Contest sponsored by this guy.
Winner gets all three of my books plus future Cathartes Aura works plus their poem published in the back of my next ebook.
Which means, I need to get to work on my next ebook.
Just the kick in the ass I needed.
My Gorgeous Illustrator and I have an infant in the house to go along with our toddler. Enough said. That's been taking up a lot of time and energy. I find it even more difficult to utilize that 2am to 4am writing slot I have relied upon.
I've been being social, at least in the social media sense of the word.
My How to Write a Ten-by-Ten post has been featured at:
Alchemy of Scrawl
and
Caron Rider's Blog
As part of the launch of Pavarti K. Tyler's Shadow on the Wall I wrote a post on Superman.
I exchanged interviews with Laura Roberts from Black Heart Magazine.
I've had a few good reviews at Amazon, Smashwords, and Goodreads.
And Book Bloggers' Collaborative is hosting a Ten-By-Ten Contest sponsored by this guy.
Winner gets all three of my books plus future Cathartes Aura works plus their poem published in the back of my next ebook.
Which means, I need to get to work on my next ebook.
Just the kick in the ass I needed.
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