December 2008

I Solemnly Swear

…that I shall update this blog more often, and work harder at getting things I mean to do, done. Like a New Year’s Resolution or something.  Only I’m not waiting for New Year’s. So.  I’ve been working on editing Ben, and it’s a monstrously slow process.  Not least because it seems I’d rather do nearly […]

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When Will I Learn?

You know how, if you really want to clean, you have to make things a lot worse first?  That’s where I am. And I’m done.  I don’t wanna do anymore.  I’m ready to write now, plzkthx. You’d think I’d learn not to start on the whole place at once, but noooooooooo…not me.  I never learn.

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Re-Write

Well, here we go again.  Time to attempt re-writing Eve once more.  Only this time–I think I may have it.  (Yes, I said that before.  Hush.) There’s more to Ben’s conflict than his PTSD.  I get it now.  I was starting to get glimmers before, but…well, I’ve loved Ben for a long time.  It was

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Withdrawal

There’s a letdown at the end of NaNo.  At the end of any project, really, but with NaNo, it’s amplified by the stress and wonder and joy of a month of mad noveling with friends. I mostly avoided it this year, I thought.  Jumped right from Hiro to Taro, with the plan to jump back.

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:headdesk:

Stupid people…are stupid. I ranted elsewhere (safely, to friends, who will not post my words where they might be…ahem…found.) But yes.  Off to drink, now.  And maybe then I’ll read some boy-smut.  Or watch Aliens and imagine certain people in place of those getting ripped apart.

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Editing Again

I have to do it.  I’ve worked so hard, and love this book so much.  It must be fixed.  Polished. Glowing. And I have to do it now.  It’s been three months–soon I must figure out how to ever-so-politely give an agent a gentle nudge and ask the status of my partial. It’d be just

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