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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:54:55 +0000

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By: flyelephant

flyelephant — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:05:33 +0000

cool

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JPS/fact » Blog Archive » Let’s Start At The Start. — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:30:25 +0000

[...] over at Novelr has written a post about why you probably shouldn’t write a fictional blog. I agree with him, nearly. Write some [...]

By: Eli James

Eli James — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:13:12 +0000

Serious? That’s good news, then. Been waiting so long for them to implement future posting.

By: Windvein

Windvein — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:10:55 +0000

Psst…Blogger lets you schedule future posts too. It’s pretty new for Blogger.

By: jz

jz — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:44:38 +0000

I’ve always stayed up late. But for me at least, it’s easier to write when everyone else in the house is asleep.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:06:26 +0000

Thanks, Sharon. I do wish I’ve more time to come online, though. There’s still plenty of stuff to post up and dissect and talk about.

And you know how I feel about your blog – it’s done so much already for Malaysian reading. =) Thank you thank you thank you.

By: bibliobibuli

bibliobibuli — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:57:24 +0000

failed? ah well, as billy lim would say, you have to dare to fail.

you learned from the experience and that is in itself valuable.

anyway, as publisher david davidar told me, every author should have a failed novel in a drawer some where, even if that drawer is a virtual drawer.

this blog is not at all a failure. i love your content and the way you present it.

personally i think blogs should be updated regularly, so readers know when to expect a new post, but that does not mean that you need to update everyday or even once a week.

life happens, and readers know that. i think a short explanation about what’s happening in your life really helps.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:29:31 +0000

@jz: 12:01 am!? You don’t sleep, do you? My brain’s mostly fried at that time – can’t for the life of me write one decent paragraph at midnight.

@Stormy: And so, I suspect, are your readers. I’m going to start reading Mirrorfall extensively after my exams are over – I’ve already covered 3 episodes and I like the idea behind it.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:51:30 +0000

I started off on an everyday schedule – I couldn’t keep up, so I dropped back down to three days a week and writing longer episodes – this has worked out, except for the hiatus I’m on at the moment (real life, etc).

I love writing organically, there are so many scenes and twists that I’ve done with Mirrorfall that wouldn’t have happened if I was writing it as one big piece.

I may explore the “write it all, upload it later” format sometime in the future (it was what I was going to do with a project that fell through), but I’m happy flying by the seat of my pants for the moment.

By: jz

jz — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:45:25 +0000

Putting things up on time is a challenge and I”ve been less consistent than I want to be. My ideal is to have things available 12:01 am or so, but I’m okay with 8:00 am (giving me the time to look things over one more time…).

What’s happened a lot lately though is putting things up the day that they’re supposed to appear (sometimes near the end of the day). Which sucks.

Amusingly, I started out the serial I’m currently writing with a three or four week buffer deliberately to avoid just such a situation. Somehow, I’d like to recreate the buffer, but it hasn’t happened yet.