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Looking for the plot.

Simon — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:29:23 +0000

Gone, facebook, gone

Simon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:22:28 +0000

That feels good. Really good.

Never look at a reference book while doing a first draft

Simon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:25 +0000

You want to write a story? Fine. Put away your dictionary, your encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket. The only things creepier than a thesaurus are those little paperbacks college students too lazy to read the assigned novels buy around exam time. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. You think you might have misspelled a word? O.K., so here is your choice: either look it up in the dictionary, thereby making sure you have it right – and breaking your train of thought and the writer’s trance in the bargain – or just spell it phonetically and correct it later. Why not? Did you think it was going to go somewhere? And if you need to know the largest city in Brazil and you find you don’t have it in your head, why not write in Miami, or Cleveland? You can check it … but later. When you sit down to write, write. Don’t do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

[via Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes, by Stephen King]

Free write screenplay

Simon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:25:33 +0000

Make a specific free-write screenplay. Come up with the most creative, dull, boring, or eccentric title for a Screenplay, then, everyday when you start to write, do a freewriting exercise on that Screenplay. Not only will it let you free your thoughts to the task at hand, it usually eliminates those two or three pages of ‘warm-up’ that can happen

[via John August’s wiki.

Lifestreaming

Simon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:11:55 +0000

~~I’ve finally found a way to get a Life Stream on this weblog.~~

Updated: Works like crap… offline again…

Woopra

Simon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:44:39 +0000

I’ve just been accepted into the closed beta of Woopra.

That is some sweet ass live stats you can pull from that program.

I’ve always liked Google Analytics a lot, but having live data is just that much better.

Crisis

Simon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:24:44 +0000

First act is done, but I’m having some serious blues.
But that was expected I guess. I’m just having doubts about the greatness of my story.

Never

Simon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:39:07 +0000

Since I didn’t write anything the Report Card tells me that if I continue in this pace I’ll never finish the script.

We’ll see about that my friend. You just wait.

16 pages

Simon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:27:18 +0000

I’m really on a roll here.

Too bad that I don’t have any time for the next three days to write anything and on Sunday I’m properly gonna be gonna have a hangover from the bachelor’s party we’re having on Saturday.

So it actually makes me 4 pages short of my goal of 4 pages per day.

7 down, 93 to go

Simon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:37:25 +0000

To put it mildly I had a flying start on the Frenzy.

Last night I wrote 7 pages of kick-ass intro in less than 2 hours.