Perhaps revisiting them will inspire you to finish one or more. I have ... oh, God. So many. Keep in mind that I do not title my stories until they're done, usually. So. In no particular order, and ignoring the ones that are actually .wpd docs, because Dear Father in Heaven, how old are those things ( Read more... )

This is the text of a talk I gave at the League of Utah Writers last night. I leave it here in the hopes that someone will find it useful ( Read more... )

So, I just read a blog post by someone whining about the business. And, wow. She is doing everything wrong ( Read more... )

Yes. I realize I'm using the old version of the friends page. That's because I like it. Your new one-size-fits-all "friends feed" is fugly and non-functional ( Read more... )

...still have not rebooted my writing brain. This is getting ridiculous. This morning, I looked at the notes the Hubby made for the ghost ship story and I'm just... bleh. I know how to fix it, but fixing it is going to require a good two thousand more words and I'm kind of tired of writing fiction that's not marketable because it's too damn long. ( Read more... )

Gyah, yes, I realize I promised pictures. And I will post them. Eventually. I swear. Today has been full of busy-ness, however. I scribbled 1200 words and am now sitting at 13,800, in the Won His Soul story. I outlined the coming events in a somewhat coherent manner as well, so I know how I'm getting to the end from here. I discussed a ( Read more... )

Well, I un-stalled myself on the Won His Soul story this afternoon by the simple expedient of having Kaveh's test be "his best friend is ill" rather than "some random villager we hadn't met yet is ill." And I have now cracked 11,000 words and know what his next test will be, although not how I'll get to it yet ( Read more... )

So LJRP ate my brain and a good portion of my life for a really long time. And I met some terrific people and I've had a blast, but it wasn't good for me on a professional level, because all my creative juice was going into that instead of writing I could, you know, get paid for.

But. After a discussion with my main RP partner about how out-of- ( Read more... )

I really should stop hanging around Yahoo!Answers for awhile. Kids on my lawn are driving me crazy.

Exhibit A:
LITERARY AGENTS NEEDED!?
I need a literary agent badly! They need to be interested in new teenage authors. Also interested in short story collections, that are... A bit twisted.Don't we all need a literary agent, honey. And that's not ( Read more... )

Yeah, I just saw this terrible "advice" on Yahoo Answers again. And kind of snapped. And ranted. I shall reproduce it here for posterity (because it's entirely possible it will be reported for "abuse"--which I will fight):

Write what you know, yes. And then research the rest. If all we ever wrote about was what we KNEW, I wouldn't have stuck an ( Read more... )