drupagliassotti @ October 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I just finished a mad writing spree to finish up a short story for Corsets & Clockwork, which I set in an alternative Venice because I’ve been so immersed in preparation for next semester’s Imagining Venice art/communication course. It was a lot of fun developing an alternative city that Napoleon hadn’t conquered, and I did [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 25, 2010 # One Comment
I can revise a novel over and over and over again on-screen, and it never makes any difference. When I finally print it out, around revision two or three, and go over it on paper, I invariably see dozens of places on each page where I can tighten prose, fix dialog, and clarify points. I’m [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 16, 2009 # One Comment
Whew! After what has essentially been a week glued in front of my laptop, I have finally finished the first draft of a Clockwork Heart sequel. I still have plenty of work to do on it, of course. Right now the story is lumpy and awkward and dangling some loose ends, but the hardest part [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 31, 2009 # 2 Comments
I managed to convey my characters to their destination yesterday, thanks to the wonders of the web, although they’ve yet to slip out to look around. Honestly, how did writers manage before all the information in the world was at their fingertips? A little research on variable-gauge axles and rail gauge changing facilities gave me [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 30, 2009 # 2 Comments
Last weekend I managed to put in another 10K on my Clockwork Heart sequel, although some of it was hard-won. I was having trouble with the fact that locomotives need to stop periodically to replenish their coal and water — and a stop was going to give my characters a very good chance of escaping, [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 30, 2008 # 2 Comments
Woo-hoo! Came in just under the wire this time, but I’m happy to have made it at all. This month was pretty hectic. You can see my official NaNoWriMo page here, and my unofficial list of NaNoWriMo novels here, if you’d like to get an idea of my previous years’ attempts. At 50,076 words, of [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2008 # 3 Comments
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I didn’t get much written, as I’d rather expected, since I headed off to visit family around 12:30. I got home again around 7 p.m., but after fiddling around with a quick little home project, I decided that I’d rather wrap up Season 2 of Torchwood than write. Disc 4 featured more James Marsters [...]