“From Whence You Came” is a Go. I repeat, the novella is a go. We have reached 100%. In one month. *falls over OMGYAY! Hugs EVERYONE involved*I admit it, I wasn’t entirely convinced this would work – there’s always this writerly suspicion that people won’t actually PAY to read anything you’ve written, that you’re not […]
So I’m closing in on 20k words on “From Whence You Came†and I realize that – unlike all the other characters – there are two who have no names, who are only referred to by their job description/titles. And they’re important minor characters, with dialogue and roles to play in the action. So they
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Politics does not stop the work. Not much of anything stops the work, short of the flu (avert, avert). My best-beloveds know this (which may explain why my best-beloveds are either likewise focused, or really really mellow). Last night, we crossed the point to 75% funded on “From Whence You Came,” which was the point
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So I swore I was going to be sensible, and cautious, and not start writing “From Whence You Came” until I had a pretty good idea if this was going to succeed but…. yeah. Well. So much for that plan! Because yesterday the story demanded its share of my writing time. [sleep? who needs sleep?]
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The thing about “From Whence You Came” is that I never had any intention of writing it. Master Vineart Bradhai just a bit of backstory in the trilogy, to explain why there were no longer any sea serpents. But I couldn’t get him out of my head – the question of what, exactly he had
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And so, the Vineart War trilogy has been finished – on my part. It now exists in whole for readers to discover, as I hope they will continue to do for many years to come. If you read it and like it, pass the word along. Books only survive through word-of-reader-mouth (and online review). As
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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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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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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One of the things I love about editing – other than the fact that I like working with other people, getting them to the Best Their Story Can Be – is that it teaches/reminds me of shit I need in my toolbox, too. And so, here’s a useful reminder. When working on a story, always
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