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July 14th, 2010
I Write Like is a web tool/toy that uses futuristic robot algorithms to tell you what famous writer’s style most closely resembles your own. I put in part of the first chapter of Hubris and got this: I write like I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your [...] July 13th, 2010
All right, it’s officially on. I just dropped my first Hubris query letter into the mailbox. Technically I still have a few revisions to do (a friend of mine recently delivered a full critique that’s been very helpful), but I probably have a good month before I hear back from this agent, so now I [...] April 28th, 2010
Yesterday I did it, months before I thought I would: I actually wrote a query letter pitch for Hubris. Charlie just wanted to reconnect with his adopted sister, Adriana. Adriana just wanted to avenge her birth mother by killing the six Gods and ending their tyrannical reign over the universe. But then things got complicated. Charlie [...] April 20th, 2010
Ah, now it’s coming back to me: the feeling of restlessness, the guilty sense that I should have gotten back to work by now instead of pouring hours into blowing stuff up in Just Cause 2. I had forgotten about this part of the novel-writing process. But Hubris is still in the hands of a [...] January 14th, 2010
Last night I finished my first big revision of Hubris. There were only a couple of major changes: I had to do a complete rewrite of the critical first page, remove the second chapter and place its exposition much later in the story, and cut out about a third of one lengthy middle chapter. I [...] |
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