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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

I was thinking I hadn't had a rejection for quite a few days in a row and was feeling paranoid that I had only dreamed of submitting stuff. # Luckily, I was rejected today, and now feel more secure in my place in the universe. # Tra la, tra la. # @ianthealy God paged me,