Part Three: There’s A Draft in Here. 97 of Them.
And I’m done. I winnowed eight pages of drafts down to two and a half pages, 156 down to 57, forty-four to think about and twelve to finish plus five scheduled to post (and thus no longer in the draft count). The plan is to finish the twelve and then go through the remaining forty-four on a case by case basis. And then maybe ask for more Questionables. Or something. Anyway, I’m proud that I just trashed ninety-nine unnecessary drafts.
Now on to my closet.
DELETE
Cherry Saturday 4-13-13: Uh, I think its time has passed.
And Now I’m Back: Apology for disappearing from the blog with some praise for Pink Martini. Nope.
? The post was even less understandable than the title.
Saturdays Are the Cherries On Top: Post announcing the beginning of Cherry Saturdays.
Flow: Just a URL.
Books, Clothes, Yarn, Paper: About my move. Three years ago.
The New Simple: Simplification in design. Went nowhere.
Focus. It’s a Good Thing. Title pretty much says it all.
And Now For Something More 2012. Its time has passed.
Reasons to Love America: So much harder to do these days, but the three I cited were Carhenge, Free Libraries, and The Center for Disease Control because they have a disaster plan for the Zombie Apocalypse.
Vitamin R: Krissie swears by it, I’ve never tried it.
Your Back, I’ve Got It: The importance of friends to creative people. (Isn’t that everybody?)
Cheerful All the Time: A post about being chipperish. Not good.
So. The iPad. My review of my first iPad. No longer timely.
Three Things. Three things that made me happy. Three years ago.
Full Fathom Fraud: Ambition and Bad Contracts: A rant about James Frey’s bogus publishing company. Whatever happened with that?
Madeleines: They’re good cookies, but they’re not a blog post.
The New York Times on Romantic Comedy. Again. A rant about something the NYT said about romantic comedy in 2008. Let it go, Jenny.
Min and Agnes in Germany: Foreigh book cover. Never mind.
Acres of Diamonds: A Good Blog post. Well, tumblr: http://acresofdiamonds.tumblr.com
Good Blog: Overheard in New York: The quotes I had in the post were funny so I went to see what the latest ones were. Not funny.
Monday Ticker. Remember when I put the word count ticker up? Yeah, I’d forgotten it, too.
I’m Worried About Brittany: From back when I was watching Glee and they started to ruin the heretofore perfect comic character, Brittany. Time moves on . . .
The Ones and Me: Post about reading the One reviews on Amazon.
Why Most Writers Are Not Rich: A post analyzing the finances of being a writer; completely out of date.
Sittin and Thinkin: A post about thinking about your story. Not good.
iCrochet: About as interesting as it sounds.
Irony the Blog: Which is now gone.
In the Future, Everyone Will Be Published: And now everyone is.
Moments: A random thought, not a blog post.
Time: A Problem: Incoherent post about time in fiction.
Summer Hummin’: A post about summer songs. Not great.
I Am What I Do: A post about “funemployment” and identity. Not worth saving.
Those Tarot Cards: A post about the tarot cards in a now defunct blog header.
The High Cost of Hating Our Bodies: Not a great entry.
Random Sunday: The Practical Edition: Nothing of interest except this video from 2011 about 100 years of fashion:
RETHINK
Making Things: Chaos theory and the Tower and creativity. Needs a lot of work, so maybe not.
Cracked Is My Life Coach: Possible, but needs work.
Self-Edit for You Again: Maybe keep the self-edit part, ditch the You Again stuff.
The Vanilla Protagonist: This is an old post about the Vanilla Protagonist in general and Nick on Grimm in particular and my ideas for fixing him. The reason this might still work is that it was written a couple of years ago and Nick is no longer so vanilla, so it might be interesting to compare the old stuff I wrote to what’s going on now. Maybe.
Supernatural Sacrifice: About the stakes in supernatural fiction and the end of the Ninth Doctor. Maybe.
Humor. Har. Comedy and tragedy and time and other stuff. Needs a lot of work.
Writer’s Brick: A variation of Writer’s Block.
Trickster Heroines Revisited: Old response post to a Trickster discussion (Lyle was still with us). Probably worth updating.
No Stupid Teasers: Just an intro but destined to be a rant of biblical proportions.
The Dogs: A Guide. No idea if people want to know about the dogs. Needs pictures and updated.
Bad Sex 2012: Discussion of the Bad Sex Award for 2015 (in fiction). Maybe update with some commentary?
Bubble Shoot: Post about different realities colliding. Not sure.
Random Sunday: It’s not bad but it’s from 2011. I’m thinking it goes.
Things I Should Get Rid Of: Very old post, but topic might work updated.
Maybe This Time: Archer House: A post about the house in MTT; since I’m working on a book where Alice goes back there, I’ll hang onto this one.
Random Sunday: Really old with broken links, but funny. Can I do Historical Random Sundays?
Do Not Post This One, Joelle: That title is a note to Joelle who was working on the website at the time. The post is about a difficult weekend I spent at a conference, trying to figure out why it was so upsetting. I’d just delete it except I’ve been thinking about it since May of 2009.
THE TWELVE I’M GOING TO FINISH FOR SURE
1. Review: RED. I really want to compare RED and RED II so I’ll hang onto this.
2. Premise: An Idea Is Not a Story. This one is really good, but it needs more research and more thought.
3. The Sleeping Ninja Trope: Blindspot and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Another good one that needs more research and more thought.
4. Questionable: Making the Protagonist Come Alive on the Page
5. Questionable: Character Chemistry
6. Questionable: How-To-Write Books
7. Questionable: Starting a Story
8. Questionable: Focus for Writers
* Questionable: Patterned Structure
: I’ll do this over on Writing/Romance.
9. The Leverage Final: Schmuck Bait and Chaos I hated the Leverage series finale which is probably why I couldn’t bring myself to finish
this (I loved the series so much and then THIS?). But it’s a good topic so I need to cowgirl up.
Schmuck Bait: Fold this one into the Leverage Final post.
10. Ordinary Guy: This is a great topic and a good start. Definitely finish this one.
11. Bonini’s Paradox: Great topic, must finish
12. This Is How Critiques Should Be Done Critique of one my scenes by Jill, one of the McD students. Needs more commentary, but really a good example of thorough critiquing.
SCHEDULED:
Of Course There’s Still Time January 1
Cherry Saturday 1-2-1016 January 2
The Nopefish Is Your Friend January 3
A Rant About Endings January 4
Rules for Golden Age Mystery Writing: Thank God It’s Not 1928 Anymore: January 5
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