BD Wilson

I don’t think I’m ever going wind up doing detailed outlining for the first draft, but I’ve gotten as close as I can getting ready for NaNo. Of course, it helps that I like using the outlining tools in Scrivener. I may still break down some of the parts farther once I get going, but I have my chapters and sections prepped, and a pretty good idea what needs to happen to get from start to finish. It’ll be interesting to see how much of that changes along the way.

I’m getting impatient. It’s probably a good thing we’re almost there

I told you I don’t own any gear. I never told you I don’t need it.
I told you I wouldn’t give up the patches. I never told you I do need them.
I told you I was scared. I never told you it’s never been for myself.
I told you I wouldn’t stay. I never told you how much I wanted to.

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There were metal posts sticking straight up from the ground, high as trees in some places. Or high as she remembered trees being. From the pieces she could see against the edges of the crater, they went down about as far as that, too. If she’d wanted to, she could risk climbing down to the bottom on them, but the whole point in coming here in the first place was to survive.

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When I finished NaNo last year, I’d pretty much decided it was my last one. My enthusiasm had been waning the last couple of years, which made it feel like going through the motions more than anything. It also meant that I would have done NaNo from 2005 – 2010, which appealed to the way my brain likes to organize numbers.

Unfortunately for the orderly part of my brain, a little while ago I began putting the pieces together to make a project out of an old idea, and it’s pretty much perfect for a NaNo draft.

So, I’m doing NaNo again this year I’m also trying something new this year: outlining. I don’t tend to do that on first drafts, but I think it’ll come in handy this time. It’s not quite ready, but I still have a couple of weeks to prepare. Here we go again!

I was deep in the grid when Oberon fell. He was to have taken out the security on the servers. We were waiting for them to go down. They never did. This time, no one expected him to return, and this time, he didn’t surprise us. It all fell apart.

Those of us in the deep escaped the burn, but we lost the first level in the grid, lost the Broken Fellowship, lost so many. Put on ice, minds gone, and there was nothing we could do about it. It was over. We’d gone as far as we could go, and it hadn’t been far enough.

All I was left with was my life, and the memory of hope lost.

My father once told me you had to fight for everything you ever owned in the world. That was back most people really owned things. We had a farm then. Well, part of a communal one, but the rest belonged to friends and neighbours, and it was ours. My father died trying to keep it.

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It seems like one of the most common profile questions on writing-related sites is “What is your favourite book?” It makes sense. After all, we are writers; we must have at least one favourite book. Of course, the more typical problem is narrowing them down. It looks like at Absolute Write I didn’t even try.

Book Country gave us five spaces. These are the five on my list:

• The Stand by Stephen King
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
• UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to be Crazy to Believe by Richard Belzar
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

When I was trying to pick one for LitReactor, I also considered Watership Down by Richard Adams and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. In the end I went with The Stand again. I tend to reread the books I really like after a couple of years, and that’s the one I’ve reread the most so far. I guess that’s as good a way to cut the list down as any