Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-28 Thread G Money
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > LOL. I've been doing artist pages for about 17 years. That was a > transformative book for me at the time. Right up there with The Deming > Management Method by Mary Walton (for different reasons, obviously) > > And I show the pages to no

Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
LOL. I've been doing artist pages for about 17 years. That was a transformative book for me at the time. Right up there with The Deming Management Method by Mary Walton (for different reasons, obviously) And I show the pages to no one, never reread them, and throw them away within the week. But

Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Maureen
Great list. But I suggest you read King and Goldberg first. Goldberg's technique is almost exactly what you are contemplating...write it all..then turn on your editor and fix it if needs fixing. I re-read both books before I start a new novel, so I can remember to turn off the editor in my head

Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
Nice! I have the Stephen King book, will look for the Goldberg book on Friday/Saturday, when I get back downtown. I have a couple of others I plan to read in the next few weeks, to get a running start at this thing, but I don't actually want to know much before I start. I would love to just take

Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Maureen
If those doesn't kick start your writing, you're never gonna be an author. s/b If those don't kick start your writing, you're never gonna be an author. It's not really my grammar skills, just a bad edit: ~| Order the Adobe Co

Re: For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Maureen
I've written several novels. Currently working on one called Bright City Gone Mad about a deep cover covert operative who accidentally stumbles on evidence about the events behind 9/11. It's set in 2011, and hopefully will also be complete and published by then as well. I've done NANOWRIMO a co

For all you budding writers out there....

2010-10-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
Every winter, I try to do something I have never done before. This winter, it is writing a fiction novel. To start off this unlikely hobby, I just joined an event called the "National Novel Writing Month" The idea is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. http://www.nanowrimo.org Sou