I’m running out of time on Hiro II. I’m actually overdue–the manuscript should have been sent to fellow TDPer, the awesome and patient Erin Zarro, on Friday. But we’ve talked and I’m still working and that is a thing I will not get down on myself about. It’s important to both of us (to all […]
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I’m working on editing Hiro, and I’m falling in. Not only do I need to edit this manuscript, but I need to fill in the holes in my worldbuilding and make sure what I come up with won’t trip me up in my plan for the later books. Because it’s a fantasy world, I’ve had to create much
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I hated to do it, but Taro and Rafe were just having too much fun. So have a bit. ≈≈:=> § <=:≈≈ “Chen,” I said, “remind me to introduce you to my sister.” “That,” Rafe said, “is your cue to run away screaming.” “Amen,” Burck put in. “What’s your sister up to now, anyway, Hibiki?
On my twitter stream this morning, someone compared writing a novel to giving birth, painful but exhilarating. Editing, according to this tweet, is the clean up after giving birth. Not fun, but necessary. Cue my completely inappropriate brain, envisioning a masked surgeon standing over a table with a marker going “no, no, that finger is
So today is the first REAL day of my vacation, somehow in my head. Though I’ve been officially off work since Tuesday, there were appointments and I had to go back in to work (unofficially) both Wednesday and Friday, and on Thursday one of my administrators accidentally locked the keys belonging to the OTHER administrator
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So I posted my angry rant about #YesAllWomen. That has consumed me for a few days–I think it’s important and I don’t want it to just taper off into silence. I’ve been discussing, and angrily reading tweets, and I’ve got to step away. Today on my Twitter timeline appeared a link with a picture of
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…is me, banging my head on my desk. Don’t worry. It’s a tough desk. And if it does succumb, there’s always the wall.
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