C17 Chance done: It must have hit the ceiling above the hole, pulling the house inward and down as it fell. # Sorry, that was C18. # C17 was: "Jerome couldn’t breathe, and then he could, and then he couldn't." # Bang! # I shot an AK-47 yesterday. It was a letdown; I much preferred […]
During the course of a pretty bad month, I managed to finish the rest of the Taltos books out to date. I ended up with some guesses; don’t read any more if you don’t want to hear anybody else’s thoughts on the matter. Tiassa: Khaavren will be in there. (Yay!) We will find out that
Time to pry Ray out of bed. # Made it back from SD again. Just exhausted. # Trying to get through my e-mail, but people keep sending me more. [Head spins.] # Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor – one of the better retellings of Lewis Carroll; inventive but not especially whimsical. # Darkly Dreaming
I’ve been writing a lot of short stories lately, pushed by something that Dean Wesley Smith said at the workshop – at one point, he wrote 44 short stories in a row, one a week. Another thing he said: if it takes more than a few hours to write a short story, you’re wasting your
We are safely home in COS. Had pollo con crema to celebrate. # I apologize; I'm waaaay behind after the SD trip. I'll get caught up ASAP. # Done with Procrustean Mirror. Taking break to unpack. “What’s in the box?” “Your marriage.” # Ambergate by Patricia Elliott – Beautifully flawed characters in character-driven plot, first
Ungha. # @ChuckWendig Woot! Congratulations on your new house! in reply to ChuckWendig # C4: Any minute, the flames would spread to the dry grass outside the church, and all hell was going to break loose, if it hadn’t already. # These chapters are running shorter than usual, about 1500 words to my usual 2000.
I went to the June Novel Writer’s Workshop with Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch from June 14-17. It was good. I’ll get to that. But it was also incredibly sad, and even now it’s hard to write about it. First off, what it was about: it was a workshop for writers on the
@dcawley I bow to you on your DnD goodness. in reply to dcawley # @syrimne1 Three more eds, via e-mail. I will send out via snail next Sat a.m. if I hear nothing. in reply to syrimne1 # Savvy by Ingrid Law was pretty good, a YA tall tale. Just excellent writing, although the plot
I want to take the day off, dammit! # I enjoyed Karate Kid with Ray and her karate school yesterday. I had to laugh at inappropriate moments, though, like the crane kick… # @senseihaynes I wanna see you do the upside-down crane kick. # In Denver. # Now in Portland! # Virga: Rain or snow
If all description is a part of character (that is, if all the description you put in a novel reflects your POV character or narrator), then a lot of description is the character’s first impression of a thing. Not just “what would your character notice” about a thing, but “what would your character notice that
