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Back to Journal  « "All's Fair," "Tommy," and "Three Rs" as iPod Video | November Writing Dare update | Thor and Loki: Two New Additions to the Family » November Writing Dare update November 21, 2005 My first story (of three stories I wanted to finish this month) gave me a plethora of problems. I screwed up in the outline phase, and created a story structure which would work fine in a visual medium like comics, but with the way the prose was going, there was too much expository writing and not enough movement. I had trouble simply telling the story. I decided to work through it rather than abandon it; I'd rather be in the habit of finishing what I start than in the habit of meeting arbitrary quantitative goals. I finished a not-nearly-publishable draft this weekend, ready to be revised later this week as time permits. Second story shouldn't give me much trouble. I finished the outline today, and it'll probably come in at under 2000 words. Accomplishing the dare's three stories is not impossible at this point, but not very likely either. I'll err on the side of getting these two pieces right before I spread my time across three mediocre stories if I can help it. Still, if I have submission-ready drafts of both stories by the end of the month, that's quite an accomplishment for me, I think. This has been a productive month for me outside the dare as well, which is why I'm not more negative about this failure. On the creative side of things, I wrote a revised draft of a short film by fellow Carrboro writer Jeremy Pinkham (an as-yet-unnamed comedy which we might film with director Steve Milligan as early as this weekend), finished recording Song of Myself (the third and longest book of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass) for Telltale, and revised a number of comic scripts. And I'll probably reveal some personal developments later this week as well. Stay tuned. Filed under Journal, Prose and Poetry, Writing Dares  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournal"Personal developments"?!?!? We're waiting with baited breath! Posted by: Ted at November 23, 2005 10:06 AM 
Damnit Ted, how do you expect to catch any fish if you keep eating the bait? Oh and personal developments. Here you go: Posted by: alex at November 24, 2005 10:40 PM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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