the writing life
This is how the week ends, not with a whimper but a sneeze
Crashed before midnight, slept until 9am. Stupid cold meds – half the morning’s gone already! Will be playing catch-up the rest of the day…. [and I still have the remnants of this damn cold. Grrr. Freelancers don’t get paid sick-days, body!] But yes, there’s a new Practical Meerkat up today, in which the P Word
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On The Air Tonight!
Sorry for the last minute notice, but it’s been that kind of a week… I’ll be on unscriptedradio tonight between 9-10pm (eastern). Call in, say hi, ask a question — or just listen to us ramble! I apologize now for any/all unscripted sneezing. Yeah, the cold’s reached that point…
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Five Things Make An Update
Busy busy busy and really incredibly boring with it, unless watching me type is a turn-on (if so, you guys need better hobbies…). 1. Started writing the new UF novel, featuring geek girls, a pony with too high an opinion of himself, a repo man who’s sorry he asked, and something lurking under the crosstown
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Yes, Irene is coming…
After an earthquake earlier this week, we’re also facing down a hurricane that is scheduled to hit NYC on Sunday. Unlike the earthquake, we know it’s coming. This has two aspects. 1. it allows people (and the city) to prepare. 2. it gives people time to say and do incredibly stupid things. So far, the
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Writing Without…
I passed the 30,000 word mark on the current project (the mystery a.k.a. “G&T#1”) The projected length for Draft 0 is about 70,000 words, which means I’m closing in on the halfway mark, on-schedule (the book is due in January). The only catch? No contract yet. No editor, either. This doesn’t worry me, exactly. We
Various and Sundry are primed for vacation…
There is too much: let him sum up. Keith DeCandido talks about last night’s reading at NYRSF. I read section 5 from DRAGON VIRUS, and it seemed to be, well, “enjoyed” isn’t really what happens with that story, but people seemed thoughtful and moved by it, so I’m calling it a win. Considering the timing
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Sunday is a day of rest. Sort of.
As the so-called #Novelrace (5 weeks to 60k!) begins on Monday, I decided to hold off on working on the novel until then. Just to play fair. Does that mean I get the day off? Er. Not really. This morning I did the final pass on “The Devil’s Jack” and passed it off to my
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You did WHAT, Gilman?
from CE Murphy’s blog: “I have accepted desperance/Chaz’s challenge, and will be writing a novel in five weeks. Chaz is already ahead; he has 15K of an 80K novel written, and I have, um. Five or ten hand-written pages of a 60K novel written. More alarmingly, I have a Walker Papers proposal and a short
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Friday is just another day to freelancers. And yet, the magic remains.
If this is relevant to your interests: Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 31. In which Practical Meerkat discusses the idea of the long game, for writers. ———– I’m informed Mercury has gone retrograde, FUBARing our ability to communicate. I don’t believe in astrology, & yet after the
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