Writing Life

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

Not So Easy

I only thought I had Hiro conquered. But I shall overcome! I keep meaning to post some rants on here, and perhaps soon I’ll get to it. But Hiro has me distracted. It’s a battle of wills, you see, and he is as stubborn as I–almost. I will wear him down. This book will be […]

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Writing Madly

I’m so near the end I don’t want to do anything else. Hiro’s book, nearly done, yay!! And getting more ideas for the second and third… Elizabeth Bear calls it a deathmarch when she gets so close to the end that she just–pushes on and finishes it. Rather appropriate, I think. Onward!

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Finale Solution

So this morning I got up early, as I’ve been trying to form that habit, and I wrote my morning pages that I hadn’t done in perhaps a month. (well, I tried yesterday but only got half a page done before I had to leave.) Anyway. In my ramblings this morning, I plotted out the

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When You Can’t Go On, Pt II

When you stumble on, prying those words out…it does get easier. ๐Ÿ™‚ *dances happily about!* words, words, I got words, the words, they are coming… Yes. Sorry. I’ll stop. That’s all I had to say, really. That if you keep pushing on, and the truth is your story is just resisting you, then you’ll come

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NaNoWriMo =/= Brainwashing Cult

Figured something out–this is the hardest time of the year for me to be productive outside of work. So doesn’t it make sense to go easy on myself? Why yes. Yes, it does. Towards that end, the Joss-edit is on the back-burner till I have more energy and a friend or two get back to

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Still Editing, Mostly

I am. And it’s amazing. I’m slowly stumbling forward, despite tons of extra hours at work. Normally by now I’m just hanging on, so I’m more than a bit delighted. However, that leaves me no time for blog posts. ๐Ÿ˜› (seriously–soon. Today was the first day of school. I’ll get better!)

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Of Course It’s Not for the Money

Duh. No one but an idiot writes for the money. An agent on Twitter threw out the idea that the publishing model needs to change–specifically, that advances should be smaller or occur not at all. Discussion, naturally, ensued. Some of the responders had my fingers itching to grab a salmon and introduce them to some

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