Kirvin on Writing

The journey of a reluctant writer

Friday, May 26, 2006

Intentions

Okay, with that out of the way, why am I doing this?

This blog will chronicle my experiences with writing. Mostly, with editing Between Heaven and Hell, finding an agent, and the publication process. I still don’t know if I’m going to start writing new material, but if I do, I’ll discuss that too. I’m a little uncomfortable with the title, “Kirvin on Writing”, because I don’t really know what the hell I’m talking about. But it is descriptive, if nothing else.

I’m intend to talk about tools for writing, but with a much more desktop-focused mindset this time around. I can edit things in Documents To Go on my Treo, I can even post to this blog from my Treo with u*Blog, but I’m going to do most of my work on the desktop. I’m running Microsoft Office 2007 at home and at work, and Word 2007 is the shizzle, yo. I hope to have a more thorough review up soonish, and I want to talk about Google Notebook as well.

So if you are at all interested in my musings on writing, publishing and technology for writers, stick around. Comments welcome.

posted by Jeff Kirvin @ 10:45 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At 5:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I'm amazed, but interested. Because like so many people, I always wanted to write a novel. But have never taken steps to do it because it's a lot of work and a long learning curve if you want to actually write a good novel.

    Anyway, best wishes.

    I wonder... have you heard of these?
    http://www.lifehacker.com/software/writing/organizing-your-great-american-novel-176007.php
    http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
    (Free story writing software. If you try them or use them, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I haven't looked myself, but like I said - one of these days I might need it!)

     

  • At 8:17 AM, Blogger Jeff Kirvin said…

    Well, I'm cheating a bit since I wrote the novel 10 years ago and it has sold relatively well as an ebook. Going over it again now, some of the writing is a bit clunky, but I'm surprised how good most of it is. I love this story.

    As far as writing software, I'm afraid I've never tried any of it. I'm kind of a purist that way. Between Heaven and Hell was heavily plotted and outlined, but all I used to write it was good old Microsoft Word.

     

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