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Less Tech More Freedom When It Comes To Writing.

I have decided to hand write the CERN story after rewriting chapter one three times on the computer. The problem about writing on the computer besides the distraction of the internets is the grammatical mistakes I have been making. I have solved this problem by unplugging myself and using a moleskine notebook. These suckers aren't cheep but it's as if you are really writing a book when you put your pencil to the paper. Currently I am on page 50 of chapter 5. I prefer writing with a pencil and paper because believe it or not I have more control over what I am doing. This may seem strange but there is more freedom in working with analogue technology. This is only my first draft and I plan on typing it out after it is fully written and revised (edited).  Changes are really easy to make as all you need is an eraser, I can carry it around all over the place and I can work on it regardless of a power source. That's the very definition of freedom.

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Advice on Writing from the Internets.

I check out Reddit daily as you know by now, as this is part of the name of my blog. I came across an interesting writing tip for finishing a story. The author of this linked blog says to write both the beginning and end at the same time. He states when writing the End your mind now has an easy goal to focus on.

After you write your first chapter, or after you reach your first conflict, take a break and write the ending. Not all the ending, just the important part. It could be a chapter, a scene, or a series of scenes.

How does that help, you will ask? Let me tell you what it did for me, and I think that it is a pure psychological ‘trick,’ a writer’s Placebo, if you will.

I sat down and I wrote the last 3 scenes of my novel. They were the scenes where everything I worked over those 100k pages came together. Plot lines were closed, mysteries revealed, characters’ quests concluded. People shook hands and said goodbye.

As soon as I did that, somehow, deep down inside of me, I felt like I almost finished the book. It felt as if by the simple act of writing that final part, I have managed to close a circle and everything just fell into place.

Thinking about doing this instead of plodding along with my outline. I let you know the results.

CERN STORY- First Draft of 1st and 2nd Chapters (Re)Written.

After boothing at the Gotham Writer's Workshop two-weeks ago I re-wrote the first chapter paying close attention to the criticisms of the other writers. I flipped and combined the initial Chapter 2 into the First Chapter, while taking out the last part of Chapter 1 and used it as the beginning of Chapter 2.  This took a while as I changed some parts of the story to add details that weren't there before and took out devices that didn't work. Revising can be more difficult than writing the original. That being said I am still not satisfied with the first two Chapters as they need more description, specifically one of the characters who remains an enigma. Whether I choose to leave it this way and develop him later in Chapter 3 seems like an idea I am entertaining at the moment.

Recommended Reading for Everyone Who Lives in the US

"If you are confused by the notion that those least able to pay are the ones singled out to pay the highest rates, welcome to the American medical marketplace."

Link to the Time Magazine article.

"What are the reasons, good or bad, that cancer means a half-million- or million-dollar tab? Why should a trip to the emergency room for chest pains that turn out to be indigestion bring a bill that can exceed the cost of a semester of college? What makes a single dose of even the most wonderful wonder drug cost thousands of dollars? Why does simple lab work done during a few days in a hospital cost more than a car? And what is so different about the medical ecosystem that causes technology advances to drive bills up instead of down?....

Taken as a whole, these powerful institutions (non-profit hospitals) and the bills they churn out dominate the nation’s economy and put demands on taxpayers to a degree unequaled anywhere else on earth. In the U.S., people spend almost 20% of the gross domestic product on health care, compared with about half that in most developed countries. Yet in every measurable way, the results our health care system produces are no better and often worse than the outcomes in those countries."