Won His Soul has garnered my eighth Honorable Mention at Writers of the Future. Framed!Werewolf was rejected and so I need to hit up Duotrope's again.

God.

And I get to reiterate that brew pubs have the best food on the planet. Two nights, two different breweries, and both places had food to die for.

Yes, I've been scarce online; planning on being home tonight, in case anyone actually missed me. kurukami, if you've been able to hold off on watching True Blood, I should be able to watch that with you ( Read more... )

We are back, o flist. Fun was had, a zoo was visited, food was eaten, trails were hiked, museums were visited, and books were bought. I haven't checked LJ since we left, and I don't know if I will ever catch up. I'll probably have a vacation report later, but right now I'm just trying to recover while doing laundry, because the Hubby has to work ( Read more... )

Uh-huh. My less-than-badass game designer?

Yeah, take a guess as to what kind of games he designs. Go on. He told me, JUST NOW.

As he points out so eloquently, there's different kinds of geeks.

There's the geeks who design things like, I dunno, Tetris and Text Twist.

And then there's the geeks who design first-person shooters. You know, the ( Read more... )

Why, yes, again.

I hammered out 1100 words yesterday and am probably going to cut a corresponding number from earlier which does nothing to advance the actual plot. I'm banging on 5,000 words right now, which was really the upper end of what I wanted to do with this. I do like what I wrote yesterday, as that did advance the plot--which is now ( Read more... )

I'd heard about this little internet tool called "Write or Die" but hadn't ever tried it out ( Read more... )

Maybe. I think I've figured out how he can get the memories back, and a try/fail cycle for that ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to blow right past 2800 words in this thing, and now it's knocking on 3K. I've written a new opening scene that establishes both the characters and the conflict. I've reconciled her death with what actually happens, since that's more fleshed out ( Read more... )

I'm now wondering if I started the Framed!Werewolf story in the wrong place.

As I said in a comment to the lovely and effulgent sunnyd_lite, we're always telling new writers to "start where everything changes for your character ( Read more... )

Stuck? Stuck! STUUUUUUUUUUUCK *cue crying and massive freakout* Fortunately, we won't need to call the fire department. Unfortunately, the cure for my personal "stuck" won't be as easy as pouring warm water over my tongue ( Read more... )