Capturing Chaos

Shortly before National Novel Writing Month began, I decided to find out what writing 3000 words in one day would be like. I planned to write that much each day for the first three days, and wanted to see if it was really possible.

It turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. I didn’t bother with plot or characters. I just sat down to do free writing about the act of writing. It didn’t matter whether the result was garbage or genius. The doing was the important thing. So I did it, and put it away without even looking at it. The idea was to give it long enough to be completely unfamiliar and then see if there are any gems to be dug out. Continue Reading »

The real work is in the setting up and eventual transfer of some posts from my writing blog on Blogspot. Other than that, some of what will appear here is my usual sporadic, slightly warped views on writing. The focus, for the next month, will be on the insanity that is NaNoWriMo. No excerpts forthcoming. After that, there’s unlikely to be any focus except the always fresh, exciting, and frustrating subject of writing. 

I know there are thousands of blogs about writing, some of them good, some great, and some pretty lousy. We’ll just have to wait and see how this one turns out. Of course, that’s really a matter of taste and it’s impossible to please all of the people all of the time. I’ll settle for pleasing some people some of the time, and I hope those will be the ones who like to explore new pathways, new ideas, and new sources of inspiration.