Delay on Episode 10 [20 Dec 2009|08:18pm] eddyfate Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there. Image by eddyfate via Flickr Due to work and the holidays, this evening is the first chance I’ve had to sit and even think about Whitechapel, and I’m not likely to get much more time until around Christmas. My options are to try and crank out a shitty episode, or push it back a week, and I’d rather do it right. So, in order to keep my life somewhat sane, I’m going to push back episode 10 to next Wednesday, December 30th. post comment

[HTK] Don't just murder your darlings -- cut them in half [18 Dec 2009|01:18pm] eddyfate [ mood | contemplative ] Image via Wikipedia Before I start my latest installment of "Head to Keyboard," I want to tell you a quick story. A Quick Story A while back, I made some comments on Facebook and Twitter agreeing with a writer who doesn't want people to give him their manuscripts to critique. I got some pushback from a couple of my peers saying that they would rather give advice to struggling writers, as a way of paying it forward. I was resistant to this, and I hid behind the old chestnut that there really isn't anything new to say on the subject of writing advice, especially since just about any "rule" I could lay down can be broken to great success.[1] After a lot of reflection, the real reason is that I didn't really consider myself all that advanced of a writer that I could dole out advice with any authority. It wasn't that I thought I wasn't good, but rather that I wasn't good enough to have my advice be actually useful. In reading Chuck Wendig's "Advice You Should Probably Ignore" posts, I realized that sharing my own experiences as a writer could be beneficial in its own way, in much the same way as the early episodes of Mur Lafferty's "I Should Be Writing." I've been doing a lot of that through my episode post-mortems on Whitechapel, but I'll try to do more generalized revelations here. For the children, you understand. ( Read more... ) 3 comments|post comment

Episode 09 Post-Mortem [17 Dec 2009|07:10pm] eddyfate Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there. Image via Wikipedia Quick note before I dive in: yes, there isn’t any post-mortem for episode 8. I was hella busy that week preparing for a LARP event, and I thought I could catch up on that during the Q&A that got canceled. If someone really has a question about the writing process for episode 8, I’ll answer it in the comments, but otherwise I’ll just dive into episode 9 and move forward. Author’s Commentary Because of the previously-mentioned LARP event, I only did a couple hundred words on Saturday, and really didn’t have a chance to write a full draft at all until Sunday night. Worse, I really had no idea what was going to happen (aside from laying the tracks to the next plot point). To top it all off, I had a tie vote in the poll. So I did a lot of hasty and heavy writing and rewriting on really short notice. And yet, I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Such is the creative process. ( Read the rest of this entry » ) 2 comments|post comment

Semester grades are in [16 Dec 2009|09:04am] greebotrill [ mood | accomplished ] Epidemiology - A Archaeological Methods - A GPA maintained at 3.95 Hell Yeah! 3 comments|post comment

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