The Joy (?) of Backwriting
drupagliassotti @ June 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For some reason just about every novel manuscript I’ve worked on has had at its core some kind of mystery. Now, I’m sure there are writers who scrupulously outline their mysteries and figure out where every clue is going to be placed and how it all links in to the whole, but I’m afraid I’m […]
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Writing Update: CH & KM
drupagliassotti @ April 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Keep your eyes open for a Clockwork Heart review & interview at BookFetish.Org.
In the meantime, I’ve written another chapter and a half for King’s Monster, which is quite a feat, considering that I’ve been writing and then scrapping scenes right and left these last two months. KM is on its fourth complete […]
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Story Update
drupagliassotti @ March 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Alas, Permuted Press has issued its TOC, and my story isn’t in it. I’ll have to find another market for it, although because it’s a Lovecraftian based work, the possibilities are a little limited. We’ll see…
On the other hand, getting the implicit rejection (the editor didn’t send out individual emails to those of us […]
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The Shadow of the Sword
drupagliassotti @ June 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I rented The Shadow of the Sword, originally titled The Headsman (2005), with some trepidation, since it’s a movie that makes an executioner the protagonist, like my The King’s Monster. It’s quite different from my novel in many ways, but there were a few similarities for me to muse over.
The movie received poor to mediocre […]
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Harrow Back
drupagliassotti @ June 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
decided to restore our files, after all, so The Harrow is back; let me know if you find any problems!
I’m still looking for help naming magic for The King’s Monster! suggested some interesting possibilities, but I’m still taking suggestions.
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Help Me With King's Monster
drupagliassotti @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I hereby call upon the Creative Collective Mind to help me coin a few terms for The King’s Monster.
Problem: I need a satisfactory term for the system of magic, and its practioners, used in the story. Something with Latin or Greek roots would be preferred, such as carne- (flesh), pneuma- (breath), sanguis- (blood), cruor- (blood, […]
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Victorian London
drupagliassotti @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m having a delightful time reading Liz Picard’s Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870. I’ve enjoyed all of her social histories of London, and this one, like the others, is chock-full of useful tidbits of information for the writer, like the metal plates in the streets that coal was poured into, that went […]
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Accidental Decapitation/Marwood's Legacy
drupagliassotti @ January 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I see the Iraqi hangman committed a faux pas and accidentally decapitated one of his victims. That’s a terrible embarrassment for a hangman; bespeaks lack of professionalism.
The long drop was perfected by William Marwood, who acted as England’s public executioner from December 1875 to September 1883. Dismayed by William Calcraft’s ineptitude on the scaffold […]
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Happy New Year!
drupagliassotti @ January 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet
And best wishes for 2007! I went to a nice party with the TO gang, including Ruth & Gary back from the World Bank in D.C.; got to bed at 2, crawled out again at 8:30, and I feel reasonably well even after trying the Irish Car Bomb (dump Baileys into Guinness Stout and drink […]
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