drupagliassotti @ July 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Over the last few weeks I’ve been immersed in trying to outline two of my novel projects. Dead Horse is the working title of a high seas fantasy novel I’ve been developing intermittently for a few years, and I’ve finally got it plotted out to the end. Whew! I know, I know, the title is [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last night’s writing lesson: When one decides to change “king” to “rai” whilst un-Europeanizing one’s novel, one should specify “whole word only” in one’s Search & Replace box. Or else one gets a novel full of words like marai, worrai, attacrai, thinrai…..
drupagliassotti @ October 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When I’ve not been immersed in teaching, grading, or committee meetings, I’ve been, primarily, huddled in a fetal ball on the sofa, snatching a few hours of escapism in cheesy supermarket paperbacks or DVDs of the last season of Heroes and House, MD. But, every once in a while, I’ve managed to muster enough energy [...]
drupagliassotti @ September 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I know, I know. I should be revising my Clockwork Heart sequel. But on Friday, while I was driving, I was struck by a vivid image of how I could rewrite King’s Monster to bring in some of my favorite elements of several other unpublished novels and short stories I’ve written to make the story’s [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m back and finally ready to post something on this blog again! Sorry that it took me a while to get into gear again… My trip to Germany was sponsored by my Lutheran university’s “Reformation Heritage Seminar,” a semester of lectures and presentations and then nearly two weeks in the former East Germany visiting various [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I stayed home and spend the day working on King’s Monster, which is more or less written, except that I’m not 100% satisfied with the ending and I’m still polishing up characterizations and adding details to the rest of the chapters. I’ve been working on this novel for, I hate to admit it, the [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ah, August, when the days grow sultry and professors start to panic…. I’ve spent the last few days copyediting a handful of manuscripts for a conference issue of a journal that I’m guest-editing. I wanted to get that step out of the way before the new semester, so I could concentrate on syllabus-writing and lecture-revising. [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
On Friday I realized I needed to add a more significant scene wherein King’s Monster character Corbin faces up to the changes he’s going through. So after a weekend of grappling with possibilities, I’ve decided to add a chapter between the current chapter 24 & 25. And here I’ve been worrying about how long the [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whew. I’ve finished Version 4, Draft 1 of The King’s Monster at last! And I think this version will finally work; it’s much grittier and less fantastic than the earlier versions, but it hangs together better (no pun intended). However, now it’s time to start scouring out the rough spots, checking for plot holes, and [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m working on the end of King’s Monster, and I need some information on raising and lowering chandeliers. Along the way I ran into this video on cleaning a two-ton chandelier in Pittsburgh. I still haven’t found any useful information on medievalesque mechanisms for raising and lowering heavy light fixtures, but I enjoyed taking a [...]