Comments on: Writing fiction — the magic’s all tied up in the details

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By: Cat B

Cat B — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:04:33 +0000

Love that your novel is alive and well and that inspiration is coming!! You are a beautiful writer…and person! Keep going, my friend! Can’t wait to read!

By: Bon

Bon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:06:52 +0000

i wish my novel whispered to me just a little bit more loudly. i think it may be that i have never quite figured out that action stuff.

i heard Edgar Sawtelle is awesome. which makes me afraid to read it for fear it’s the book i wanted to write.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:36:33 +0000

I’m so glad you’ve internalized the ACTION concept.

By: Jennifer (Baklava Queen)

Jennifer (Baklava Queen) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:18:19 +0000

Wow, those first four paragraphs were a novella in themselves, making me yearn for the real thing. You’ve really got something there!

(And yes, it makes you feel a little crazy when you have all these characters talking around you and no one else is around — but aren’t they wonderful company? Let them lead you onto that new path…)

By: thordora

thordora — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:03:22 +0000

I’ve suddenly had, after a dry spell of years, the urge to write fiction again-and the sudden ability to find my characters and talk to them. Lucious isn’t it!

I’ve given up on anyone’s recommendations after Time Traveler’s Wife. Ick. Ick. I can’t even finish the bloody thing. I’ll force myself to eventually, but I don’t want to.

By: angelina

angelina — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:51:01 +0000

Oh I am so excited! You know this is just what I’ve been wanting to do. Almost three years ago now I started reading your blog because I felt that you were a kindred spirit in the homesteading way, and I loved that you were a writer like me- but at the time I didn’t really understand why you kept hanging onto this whole fiction thing. And now I get it. And I as I am writing, I feel like I hear you over my shoulder all the time and I get it. I get why these characters have hung onto you. I get what the power of fiction is for a writer. I mean, I tried to write it for years and it never gelled. It never took and I just kept thinking it just wasn’t the kind of writer I am. So I think, in some ways, you’ve given this to me. And as I am experiencing it now, how you experience it, I desperately want you to finish your story. Cause I finally totally completely get it.

Love this post! And I adore you, my friend!

By: maggie, dammit

maggie, dammit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:36:44 +0000

Ooooooh.

I want you to get to writing that book because I want to get to reading it.