tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post3480514663115231409..comments2024-03-28T13:17:20.734-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Writers Blocks Build StoriesLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-66883792233203933122019-10-15T11:27:54.016-04:002019-10-15T11:27:54.016-04:00I would argue there is a third kind of WB based on...I would argue there is a third kind of WB based on grief. I have suffered it for two years now as it started when my late wife was clearly losing her fight against cancer. I am still drowing in the grief sea. Kevin R. Tipplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170714419133752724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-37142442315992275322019-10-14T21:59:42.937-04:002019-10-14T21:59:42.937-04:00Michael, a song-writing musician friend of mine sa...Michael, a song-writing musician friend of mine says it sometimes takes him ten minutes to write a song. As an illustration, he often plays a song that he wrote in ten minutes...five minutes in 2011 and five minutes in 2015.<br />Steve Liskowhttp://www.steveliskow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-69177051637833069422019-10-14T18:37:26.951-04:002019-10-14T18:37:26.951-04:00I don't often return to finished—but unsold—st...I don't often return to finished—but unsold—stories and attempt to significantly revise them. Usually I just wait until markets change and start sending them out again.<br /><br />On the other hand, I have dozens—many dozens—of incomplete stories, and I return to them off-and-on to see if I can figure out how to complete them. One such story is "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (mentioned in this year's BAMS as one of the other distinguished mystery stories). My notes indicate that I started it September 2, 2003 and completed it December 29, 2017. Fourteen-plus years from first word to last word seems like a bloody long time to draft a story.Michael Brackenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01072019804281421944noreply@blogger.com