drupagliassotti @ August 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ah, August, when the days grow sultry and professors start to panic….
I’ve spent the last few days copyediting a handful of manuscripts for a conference issue of a journal that I’m guest-editing. I wanted to get that step out of the way before the new semester, so I could concentrate on syllabus-writing and lecture-revising. Today, […]
drupagliassotti @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
On Friday I realized I needed to add a more significant scene wherein King’s Monster character Corbin faces up to the changes he’s going through. So after a weekend of grappling with possibilities, I’ve decided to add a chapter between the current chapter 24 & 25. And here I’ve been worrying about how long the […]
drupagliassotti @ July 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whew. I’ve finished Version 4, Draft 1 of The King’s Monster at last! And I think this version will finally work; it’s much grittier and less fantastic than the earlier versions, but it hangs together better (no pun intended).
However, now it’s time to start scouring out the rough spots, checking for plot holes, and furnishing […]
drupagliassotti @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m working on the end of King’s Monster, and I need some information on raising and lowering chandeliers. Along the way I ran into this video on cleaning a two-ton chandelier in Pittsburgh. I still haven’t found any useful information on medievalesque mechanisms for raising and lowering heavy light fixtures, but I enjoyed taking a […]
drupagliassotti @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned my writing whiteboard a couple of times, so I thought I’d go ahead and post an image in case any of you might want to use one.
I live in a one-bedroom apartment, so I write on one side of my dining room table and eat on the other. This is the writing side. […]
drupagliassotti @ June 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned King’s Monster (working title) a few times here, but I haven’t talked much about it. I’m now — I deeply, sincerely hope — about two and a half chapters away from its end, so I thought I’d discuss it a little.
KM is a dark political fantasy that I’ve been working on for quite […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]