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Website Update

Today I posted two new pages on my website, both Buttersby related.  The first is the commentary for chapter thirteen, and the second is a deleted scene from Cavern of Babel, back from the first draft of the book.  Good times. Not much else happening right now.  I’m just enjoying being at home, where the temperature is NOT 93 degrees.  In fact, I think I should make that one of my new life goals.  Never work in a place that’s 93 degrees inside.  Honestly, aren’t there labor laws that enforce that?  There ought to be.

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Cavern of Babel Commentary Up

I’m already up to chapter twelve.  That means I’ve been doing this for something like four months.  Crazy.  This week’s talks about the origins of the alpaca flood tale.  Enjoy. In other news, I’ve been ramping up my involvement for this year’s upcoming BYU’s Writing for Young Readers conference.  If any of you out there are interested in learning more about writing for children and young adults (or illustrating), then this is one of the best conferences you can go to.  It’s pricey ($430 or so), but compared to other conferences, that’s really not much for the caliber of instructors

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Buttersby Commentary

Chapter Eleven is up, including a brief discussion of how my ideas affect my writing. Yesterday I had a minor writing crisis.  I got to the point in Ichabod where I realized that the ending–as I had plotted it–didn’t work.  I hadn’t thought through some of the implications of various events.  So I had to switch gears from writing mode to planning mode, and that was something that proved more difficult than it should have been, really.  I guess I just had gotten myself into this nice little rut where I could just out my head down and barrel through

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Funerals (and a Buttersby Commentary)

Funerals, on the other hand, aren’t as bad as viewings.  I can see the point, at least, and there’s a sense of finality that is good for people, in my opinion.  I think it might be better for me if I were the type of person who cried.  I’m not a crier.  I haven’t cried in at least five years, as best as I can recall.  The last time I cried, I was really overstressed and the death of my dog a year before finally caught up to me.  That’s right.  That’s how repressed I am.  And I don’t really

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Buttersby Commentary

You learn things in the strangest of places.  Today while writing the Buttersby Commentary for this week, I actually found something in my own book that helped me with the writing anxiety I expressed in my last post.  So for a lesson on what we can learn from alpacas, click on over here and see what you think.

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