http://www.dlthurston.com/blog ...a blog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:05:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First writing day ended up not entirely structured as planned, and I think the problem is that I tried to write too much.  That was lesson #1 that my Thing a Week taught me, I can't really force myself to write if inspiration isn't hitting me.  Perhaps it would be ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/01/05/mixed-success/ Well, I ended up with tomorrow off, which I wasn't initially expecting.  So I figured if I want to have Writing Days in 2009, why not start with the second day of the year.  I'm going to plan to clock in somewhere around 9, and start with a massive editing ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/01/01/writing-day-1-planned/ I was originally going to call this another resolution, but I realized that's not really what it is.  Resolutions are things that you want to get done in the coming year, and the reason a lot of them fail is that people have goals, but don't really have a pathway ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/30/a-plan-of-action/ I'm writing this while waiting for an edited version of Sleep to print out.  Once it does, it's going into a nice big envelope along with an SASE for a trip out to Los Angeles to be considered for Writers of the Future.  Been so long since I've submitted anything ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/29/a-submission-printing/ Way back when I wrote a novel.  And that novel was called Rust.  It was my first Nanowrimo project, and the first novel that I took from start to finish.  It's also one that I eventually "published" through the on demand website Lulu.  It's a novel I haven't thought about ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/22/serial-yum/ I resolve... ...to prepare submit each of the seven stories from my previous entry for publication (at least one in the remains of 2008). ...to complete a full editing pass of Conqueror Worm and send out query letters within two months of this completion (not necessarily in 2009, but no later than ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/19/new-years-resolutions/ If you ever find yourself in a horror movie, seek out a young Japanese child and ask him what to do.  Then, for god's sake, DO IT! http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/01/thoughts-on-cliches-1/ We're getting into the last month of 2008, and I've been working to decide just what I'm going to do with 2009.  Including what I'm going to do with this blog.  And the answer, hopefully, is update it more.  Not just with writing stuff, but with general thoughts, because the ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/11/29/a-blog-2/ Don't cry for me dear blog readers... Well, that really just summed it up right there.  My thing-a-week project has come to a crashing failure around me, but really...I have to say I'm okay with that.  For a couple reasons. Reason the first.  The short stories had moved from fun to grind.  ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/10/20/failed/ One of the interesting things about taking my cue from a singer is that I start thinking about this in terms of musical terms.  If that's the case, then what I've finished is my first (though not last) Cover Song within this process.  Cover Songs, of course, are the idea ... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/08/06/his-first-cover-song/