Comments on: Welcome to the Fiction-Writing Directorate

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:07:24 +0000

I have returned! My draft is done and submitted to the workshop. It’s not the glorious, beautiful creation I dreamed of, but it is a real draft, and it is done.

Whew! I’m exhausted.

By: stormy

stormy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:26:47 +0000

Just write then think about it.

By: Ethelie

Ethelie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:52:14 +0000

Agent Emily is now Safe. The VerbHounds will not Devour her Limbs.

Agent Eva: We look forward to your Triumphant Return.

Agent C.S.: Indeed! You will be cast into the Pit of Scorpions if you do not Complete your program of gentle Exploration, Nurturing, and Creative Blossoming. Begin! Immediately! Nurture yourself as if the very Hounds of Hell are snapping at your Heels.

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:58:09 +0000

Director, I am here to report. This week I shall take on the danger-fraught Mission to complete a draft of the perfidiously slippery short I’ve been laboring at for nigh-on a year.

Driven by a maddening External Deadline, I shall be away from Directorate offices for this week, unable to complete the Training Exercises. But lest you think me a shirker, I hereby swear to return triumphant, short story ms in hand, and join my fellow agents in the Exercises in one week.

–Agent “Sagebrush”

By: C.S.

C.S. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:25:31 +0000

I would like to promise myself to start and finish the six-week plan in The Artist’s Way, beginning today.

By: emily

emily — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:43:58 +0000

Oh good question Ethelie! Written. It will be written. In fact, first draft IS written now!

By: Ethelie

Ethelie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:54:51 +0000

Agent Emily: Will you have this Transition written? Or merely Imagined? The Verbhounds, I fear, will not find an Imagined version very Compelling. Plot your course Wisely.

Agent Sean: You would Like to? Or you Will? Take a Stand, my little Armadillo, and make it Happen, for there are worse Things than “Writer’s Block.”

Subsiste sermonem statim et scribe!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:13:07 +0000

I would like to finish the outline or rough sketch of my novel, and then begin writing it.

By: emily

emily — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:40:18 +0000

This week I want to finally figure out how to transition from my prologue into the story for the novel-that-has-no-name-yet. It doesn’t have to be a whole chapter. But something. Some kind of segue from the future into the past…