The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
Bad enough having to go to work. Having to work to get to work? That really sucks. But the subway didn’t come, so Joss has to find an alternate means of transportation. This is from Queen’s Man, coming soon from awesome online places! Chivas, as far as Joss knew, were unique to Kari’s Star. Anyone […]
Taking the Bus to Work, Joss-Style Read More »
Try how fast it flies when you carve out writing time and then waste it doing other things. I’m so serious. Google something for research. Bam! Twenty minutes, gone in a heartbeat. Go searching for the right word and get distracted. Bam! You just burned through seventeen minutes and didn’t even see it going. Writing
Think Time Flies When You’re Having Fun? Read More »
I’m editing! Yay, me! Here’s something I can’t stop snickering over. It won’t mean as much to you as it does to me, but I’m posting it anyway–just so I can move on. Well inside the building, but before anyone entered the Chamber itself, security men searched people. Paige swallowed hard as one man then
Because I Love Joss Read More »
If you follow writerly circles on the internet, you’ve probably seen it before. Someone posts less-than-kind things about a book. The author of the book responds. Maybe it starts out as a reasoned discussion (though not necessarily), but generally it devolves rather quickly into “you’re just not smart enough to understand my work” and/or “how
My One-Star Review Read More »
Stupid weekends coming to an end. Stupid having to go to work on Mondays. Stupid, stupid. The more I work on this novel the more I love it. Joss cracks me up, Paige delights me, and Zeke is starting to come into his own. I don’t want to go back to work and leave them
In general, I move fast in my first drafts. My focus is on the characters and the action, figuring out who is doing what and why. Sure, I’ve become more of a planner in recent years, but I’m still not much of one. If I have the BS2 half-filled in with a paragraph for most
Don’t mind me. I just want to remember how this worked so I can figure out the next big plot issue. 🙂 From my 750 Words this morning: Wish I knew how much of my wander-off obsession was feeding the muses and how much just wasting time. >.< Trying to fall into Tiger and Bunny