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Apr. 3rd, 2008 | 10:10 am
music: Changing Opinion - Bernard Fowler

I've always wished I could be one of those people who plugged away diligently at 1,000 words a day, or 2,000 words a day, but I'm simply not. I'm a binge writer. That's just how I roll.

Thus, when I have the characters, when I know the conflict and where the plot is going, I can easily write 10,000 words a day -- as I have over the past 2 days, on a brand new novel that has knocked me down, dragged me down a dark alley, and demanded all the spare change out of my pockets.

This looks to be the greatest piece of fiction ever committed, just to warn you all in advance. I'm writing it in first person present, which is probably why it's going so quickly. First person present is pretty darn easy to draft. Except when it comes to sex scenes. Sex scenes in first person present are just ... silly.

But I generally write silly shit anyway, so that'll all work out fine, I'm sure.

See you all on the flipside.

P.S. Shout out to my NYC peeps that I'll shall be in the City the week of April 14-18 and will be at KGB & dinner on the 16th. Staying at my usual Union Square hovel hostel. Yeah, I know. You're all getting sick of me. Just think how tedious it will be when I finally give up and move there!
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slushmaster

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from: [info]slushmaster
date: Apr. 3rd, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)
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Yay for coming back to NYC!

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 07:05 pm (UTC)
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Hope to see you!

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Vylar Kaftan

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from: [info]vylar_kaftan
date: Apr. 3rd, 2008 06:24 pm (UTC)
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I'm also a binge writer. I was much happier when I accepted this instead of forcing myself to be something I'm not.

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 07:05 pm (UTC)
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Self acceptance ... the other white meat!

I'm hoping to get some serious binge-time in this weekend. Does it so happen for you that the times when you want to write the most, when the ideas come most fast and furious, are also the times when RL is busy too?

It's awful frustrating, to have all these ideas just when my free time is at its lowest ebb. I'm thinking there's a mechanism at work here.

M

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E.C. Myers

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from: [info]ecmyers
date: Apr. 3rd, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
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Darn, I'm going to be in LA from April 14-17, but maybe we can meet up before you leave, if you're not too in demand. :)

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 06:57 pm (UTC)
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The week is filling up faster and denser than I'd expected. Now I'm not even sure if I'll make it to KGB. Wah.

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slushmaster

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from: [info]slushmaster
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 08:08 pm (UTC)
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*Shakes fist* You'd better come to KGB. *Shakes fist again*

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 08:17 pm (UTC)
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Yesss maaaasster ....

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Coyote

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from: [info]coyotegoth
date: Apr. 3rd, 2008 08:25 pm (UTC)
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We'll have to say hey!

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 06:58 pm (UTC)
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Will keep you posted as my schedule evolves ... it's starting to look a bit back-to-back, unfortunately.

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camillealexa

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from: [info]camillealexa
date: Apr. 3rd, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC)
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Move away? Noooooooo.

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 06:58 pm (UTC)
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Well, I have to get rich first. So it might be a while. ;-)

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Rose Fox

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from: [info]rosefox
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 03:48 am (UTC)
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Yay for you being in New York! Maybe we'll actually get a chance to talk this time. *) KGB is great for waving hello, not so great for actual conversation.

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 06:59 pm (UTC)
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Keeping my fingers crossed that I can make it, but there are now some client dinners and suchlike that have to be taken into consideration. Ah, cruel Mammon!

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Maybe It's Just Me

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from: [info]hazelwindows
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 04:58 pm (UTC)
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My lips absentmindedly brush by the back of the hand I am leaning against, softly, speculatively, as I ask myself, "first person, present tense sex scenes... wow, how can she pull it off??"

I find I am wondering, wondering how she can write so much in a day, yet glad, for this means her work will be done sooner, and I know that I simply must read it when it comes out. I keep my trust in her ability to write first person present much better than I can. I feel that's a pretty damn safe bet and my anticipation grows. I wait for her story, impatiently, but with the banked fires of an obsession that will not wane with the passage of time. Will she announce it when she has finished? I pray it is so as my lips now brush the back of a big donut.

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M.K. Hobson

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from: [info]mkhobson
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 07:01 pm (UTC)
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Jeez, will you write my first person sex scenes FOR me? Yours are much less silly -- except for the donut part.

My first person sex scenes, no matter how classy I try to be when writing them, always come off sounding like those fantasy "letters to the editor" you read in Hustler. ;-)

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Maybe It's Just Me

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from: [info]hazelwindows
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)
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oooo I can't wait!

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Serge_LJ

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from: [info]serge_lj
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 08:38 pm (UTC)
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I generally write silly shit anyway

But it's GOOD silly shit.

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Josh English

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from: [info]joshenglish
date: Apr. 4th, 2008 11:40 pm (UTC)
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Binge Writing! That's what I need! That's what I should have been doing over spring break. Glad to hear there's progress.

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