writer at play
Posted in inspiration, personal on Oct 9th, 2008
A few Sundays ago, the Princess, the baby and I went out for a walk in the evening. There’s this one longish loop that we do–it goes down into town, past the shops and the churches and the golf course, and back up a hill into the residential area, full of quiet, gracious old homes [...]
Posted in short stories on Oct 8th, 2008
Remember that story that I was beating my head against a month ago? It sold! All that head-banging and hair-tearing was worth it! The ‘zine is Mindflights and the story is “Soulsong”, featuring Elinor, the War Bard who appeared in “Singing for the Enemy”. Now I’m dreaming up yet another Elinor story. I love that [...]
Posted in season of rains on Oct 7th, 2008
So far, I’ve rewritten a chapter that badly needed it, thrown together a rough synopsis of the novel, and am right now compiling all my worldbuilding notes: lists of scholarly books, folktales and other cultural detritus, maps, constellations, etc. Yet, for all this progress, I feel like I’m avoiding revising this book. At this point, [...]
Posted in season of rains on Oct 5th, 2008
… that makes my oh-so-well-plotted and entirely logical, consistent and coherent story sound so stupid?
Posted in random on Oct 4th, 2008
Via Pub Rants: The World’s Best Paid Authors. No prizes for guessing who tops the list. Some things that jumped out at me: 1. HUGE difference between the 300 million raked in by Rowling at number 1 and Patterson’s (number 2) 50 million. 2. Most of them are genre writers. Go, entertainment for the masses! [...]
Posted in personal, season of rains on Oct 2nd, 2008
I feel like I’ve spent a significant portion of my life driving places recently. Social events, kids’ activities, doctor’s appointments, random errands; I guess this is what having a kinda-normal life is like, huh? However this whirl of activity is seriously draining both my physical and mental energy. Writing is not happening (much), nor are [...]