Buying a gun is easier than buying a book? Really ( Read more... )

Because when someone, in all seriousness, says this:

And how would you describe the kinds of books you steer clear of?Anything described by the author or publisher as fantasy, which to me says, “Don’t worry, Reader, Death will be absent here.” In his brief introduction to “Slow Learner,” Thomas Pynchon says he takes serious writing to be that in ( Read more... )

Understand that I don't outline very often. But on something that looks to be coming in at 13,000 words, it's kind of necessary in order to pull all the plot threads together and make sure all my ducks are, if not in a row, at least on the same page and foreshadowed properly ( Read more... )

Seriously, y'all. They do.

So, I revisited the "Ben&Alex have a conversation about their women" story that I started, lo, many moons ago, by request.

WHY WHY WHY does everything I write in this 'verse (at least, having to do with Ben) devolve into angst? Especially in something where they're supposed to be having fun? *shakes Ben out of his funk, because holy cow ( Read more... )

My frakking HERO today.

Okay, not only was he played by My Celebrity Boyfriend in "The Soloist," but his column weighing in on the Roman Polanski thing hits the nail on the head ( Read more... )

since the business cards I hand out at Cons point here, that I should do a Sticky Post for those unfamiliar with navigating LJ. I mean, yeah, all the info about where you can Read My Stuff is on the Userinfo page, but, shoot, who reads those, right ( Read more... )

And that's really all I'm going to say about this date. Other people out there are expressing my own thoughts better than I could do (I'm an emotionally stunted fiction writer, remember), and the world doesn't need me saying "I hope we kill every last one of the bastards responsible so dead that no one will ever find all their parts. And everyone ( Read more... )

I'm heading out to Borders with a 40% off coupon and the netbook in a little while. I leave you with a snippet. Early days in the prison, West has been tormenting Ben, and go:

Ben made a noncommittal noise and grabbed a pair of jeans. "If I asked you to kill me," he said, too casually, "would you do it ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I cracked 40,000 words ( Read more... )