In Search of the Fiction Fairy

award-wining author Mia Zachary's online diary where she ponders the meaning of life, strives to improve her craft and generally mouths off

Friday, October 13, 2006

Philosophy Friday

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GOOD NEWS
I bought some new jeans yesterday SIZE 10, baby!!!
I signed on for this years's NaNoWriMo
My new web design was finalized and should be up soon
There's still time to win one of my books

GOOD ADVICE
"A first draft is an anything goes space for you to roll up your sleeves and make a terrific mess... The first law of exuberant imperfection is essentially this: The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy... In the context of novel-writing, this means you should lower the bar from 'best-seller" to "would not make someone vomit". Exuberant imperfection encourages you to write uncritically, to experiment, to break your time-honored rules of writing just to see what happens."
--Chris Baty (NaNoWriMo founder), NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM!, page 32 & 33

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