Writing Life

The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.

There’s a Song about Editing

There’s a saying, and now a country song, that goes “If you’re going through hell, keep on going.” Yes, I know I said I enjoy editing. And I do–most of the time. But there’s a reason Holly Lisle calls this part the “manuscript slog.” [Disclaimer–this may not actually be the way editing goes for you. […]

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Ponderings

I’m stuck on a scene and thinking a free-write might help. I also want a blog post. So guess what I’m going to do? Yep. So. Scene in the manor house has no conflict at all. Well, okay, Ume and Cree snipe a bit at each other, but that’s not enough. I was trying to

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…wait, what?

So…now I have two parts in the play. They’re in the same scene. I’m not sure how this is going to work. XD Two hours on EdMo today. I almost finished one whole scene! Whee?

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NaNoEdMo So Far

Starting on day one, of course: 99 80 60 10 0 240 180 30 40 10 40 60 849 divided by 60 = 14.15 hours so far. I think I need to buckle down a bit. Which is going to be hard, as I sort of accidentally volunteered to join a production of Alice in

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I…made an icon?

Tonight I made an icon. I like it lots. I don’t usually choose to write on my person’s face, but I felt it fit this one. And the second line–I was looking for a font that looked like a scream, but this one actually works better. I ended up walking the line between art *snerks

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NaNoAUGHMo

Yeah, this is not going so well. I knew it would be this way, though. Hiro is an utter mess, and besides, editing always starts like this. A whole lot of AUGH and why did I DO that? and hell, what did I mean to write instead of “the revenant bit of his hand” and

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