Croak
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Scorch
Book #2 in CROAK series
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Book #3 in Croak series, coming 9/10/13 from Graphia/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtStalk me, won't you?
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Book Three, In Index Card Form
And laid out across my dining room table. That’s chapter by chapter, scene by scene. Of course, five minutes after this was taken it was no longer accurate, as I’ve been cutting and pasting and taping and stapling and deleting … Continue reading
To my next-door neighbor:
File photo. Hi. We’ve never met, and I’m guessing we’re not going to, seeing as how I’m choosing to communicate with you in a very passive-aggressive manner via my blog–and since I’ve chosen not to wallpaper my neighborhood with 8″x10″ … Continue reading
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Tagged arya, chainsaws, game of thrones, leaf blowers, neighbors, wood chippers, Writing
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The Five Stages of Grief Edits
The revisions cave is a dank, lightless place. Discarded commas lay all about. Plot holes open up like gaping chasms. Dialogue that never quite landed in the right way juts up from the floor. Stalactites of deleted scenes hang overhead, … Continue reading
Poor Rabbit
Cross-posted on The Nightstand How did I know I wanted to be a writer? Well, I could tell you all about how I hated writing in high school, then dabbled and fell in love with it in college, then abandoned … Continue reading
End It Like Beckham
Cross-posted on The Nightstand When I started writing Croak, the beginning was easy. Introduce Lex, get her on the bus, have her discover Croak. It practically wrote itself. Or at least, billions of rewrites later, it practically wrote itself. But … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, Croak, endings, ketchup, planet of the apes, Writing, ya, yalit
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Mr. Roboto
Cross-posted on The Nightstand Okay, I’ve been thinking about this hero thing all week. And while I’ve tried to assemble a thorough list of my all-time favorite heroes, complete with literary sources and “wasn’t-Frodo-just-the-best?”, there was one character that just … Continue reading
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Tagged brad bird, cold war, harry potter, hero, iron giant, robot, sandwich, wall-e, Writing, yalit
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