Archive for November, 2010
Writing prompts crack me up. You may use them, and they may work very well for you — horses for courses, no harm, no foul, whatever gets your writing juices a-flowing. (Me, I use opium and electroshock therapy.) But for me? Writing prompts just make me snort and giggle.
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The other day, Marko asked: “I’m a sucker for process porn…I like reading about how other writers get the words down. What’s your hardware /software setup for writing? Laptop, desktop, longhand, sticks and clay tablets? PC, Mac, Linux, Amiga OS? Scrivener, Word, WordStar for DOS, Notepad?” You want to know my process? I can do that.
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Time once again to stuff a hot steaming load of deviant bloggery into the double-mouthed barrels of a hungry, hungry shotgun. With a pull of the trigger I blow my words through the back of your head and onto the wall behind you. CHOOM. That’s right, nerds. It’s a buckshot blast of Painting With Shotguns.
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That said, I figured I’d offer up today as kind of an informal — what did my guidance counselor from high school call it? “Rap session.” Yes. All the cool kids call it a “rap session.” And we are all cool kids, here. You got questions for me about anything, hey, slide it into the icy maw of the comments box below.
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You’re in the slog. It’s not your fault. That’s the default state of writing a novel — somewhere in the middle, the murky mire rises to your knees and sucks the boots of your feet and now you don’t know how the hell you’re going to proceed. As I’ve said in the past: “Conflict is the food that feeds the reader.”
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