writer at play
Posted in kids at play, writing process on Oct 31st, 2008
The older two kids and the husband are going out dressed as pirates. The baby and I will stay at home to hand out candy (we’re a corner house really close to the main part of town and we get tons of trick-or-treaters from the “country”). The baby will be costumed as a dalmatian puppy [...]
Posted in motivation on Oct 30th, 2008
National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us. This year November had the good sense to begin on a Saturday so all the eager novelists can get off to a flying start. I, unfortunately, will not be among them. I have a soft spot for NaNoWriMo, which gave me 50K-plus words on my first (and [...]
Posted in season of rains on Oct 25th, 2008
One of the cool things about my protagonist Jhayni in Season of Rains is that she’s a (an?) historian. This means that I get to make up all kinds of artifacts, sub-cultures, texts, dynasties, legends and colorful anecdotes about historical characters of her world.
And oh boy, did I ever do so, with joyful abandon.
There are [...]
Posted in random on Oct 24th, 2008
Holly Lisle is helping out a fellow writer. Clickety-click:
Posted in season of rains on Oct 21st, 2008
… this little gem:
Jhayni awoke, thrashing in the sweaty tangled sheets like a panicked swimmer in water.
In water, as opposed to, say, Jell-O. Or lava. Or orange juice. *headdesk*
Progress: 137/244 pages
Posted in writing process on Oct 21st, 2008
Darren Rowse over at Problogger has some tips about recession-proofing your blog.
Now, I don’t earn any income from blogging (though, full disclosure, I did sign up for the Amazon Associates program and use that when I link to books I review), but I liked that he said to not panic and stay positive. There is [...]
Posted in numbers, season of rains on Oct 19th, 2008
SoR revision 2:
121/244 pages
I axed a one-page scene, the only scene that was not from Jhayni’s POV. Turned up some inconsistencies that I need time to figure a way out of. There’s a lot of “who knows what and when did they know it?” going on in this book. Sad to say, I don’t know [...]
Posted in numbers, season of rains on Oct 16th, 2008
SoR revision 2 progress:
88/245 pages
I’m hoping to get another 50 pages revised this weekend. I’ll post up another progress report on Monday.
Posted in blogging on Oct 14th, 2008
Paperback Writer has a list of suggestions for uninspired bloggers. Don’t be surprised if you see a few of them tried out here in the next couple of weeks.
Posted in numbers, short stories on Oct 13th, 2008
I just remembered to update my Submission Tracking Spreadsheet (Ta-Dah!). I actually have one of those, and I’ve been really really good about (not!) keeping it updated, ever since I started submitting short stories in the Dark Ages (2003), way back B.C. (Before Children).
I was quite impressed with myself to discover that I have submitted [...]