I would like to thank everyone for their sympathies and well-wishes on yesterday’s events. Yesterday was rough, and I appreciate all your thoughts. Thank you. So, last night, a little bedtime reading. I picked up Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, read another twenty-odd pages and put it down. Quite frankly, I’m finding myself both bored andContinue reading “On a Strange Story Idea”
Category Archives: Writing
On a Plot Outline IV
Six more pages. Twenty-two hundred more words. The end is in sight.
On a Plot Outline III
Seven more pages, 2500 words, of plot outline written today. Now, to get ready for work!
On Microsoft Word
I have a pet-hate for Microsoft Word. I disagree with its grammer checking mode. Take this sentence–“Lights dim.” It’s a perfectly good sentence. Microsoft Word considers this a sentence fragment. Excuse me? What more does it need? I have a subject–“Lights”–that acts on its own–they “dim.” I could have written “Lights go dark” but IContinue reading “On Microsoft Word”
On a Plot Outline II
Today I edited a page out of the plot outline, tightening it from eight pages to seven. Surprisingly, the outline didn’t suck. 😉 Now, to work on a separate, yet completely related plotline.
On a Plot Outline
Tonight I’ve written three thousand words of a plot outline. Eight pages, double spaced. Now to see if it’s any good….
On Renewal
allyngibson.net will be with you for another year. I know, stay your disappointment. Some of you out there may have been hoping for a muzzle to silence my random bleatings. 😉 Domain and webspace renewed. In Bizarro speak, Me am happy!
On Writing
Sent off today, story pitches for an anthology. 🙂
On my authorial tendencies
As seen on several blogs in the past day, most recently Bill Leisner’s, which science fiction author am I? I am: Philip K. Dick The brilliant yet trashy master of the reality warp always left you unsure of what was real, but never forgot compassion. Which science fiction writer are you? That didn’t surprise me,Continue reading “On my authorial tendencies”
On a Plot Outline
Four pages of a plot outline written today. Can I make two more before bed?