I don't know what week it is. I'm beginning to think that will be a condition for the rest of my life as a mom. I do think a lot about how last year at this time, I was falling asleep for hours unintentionally and feeling sick to my stomach, and that my act of creativity was biological. Bug's "story," thus far, has been a delightful one, and I'm ( Read more... )

I've written here about using a few different goals strategies, and about how I particularly liked devonmonk's reasonable goals combined with above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty goals, as it's encouraging to land somewhere in the middle. I decided to set some for the summer, thanks to kaz_mahoney's Summer Camp. She's doing a writing goals thing (not a challenge, as that ( Read more... )

So, back at the beginning of January, I posted some goals: one about developing a spiritual practice and one about returning to an actual writing practice. Then devonmonk posted another entry about goals over at Deadline Dames, and I set a couple of mini-goals, mostly about meeting my deadlines (with additional uber-goal of doing actual fiction writing ( Read more... )

I realized today, as I talked with one of my early readers (one of my Mythic Greece players who was kind enough to actually read and think about some very drafty chapters of what I hope becomes the Blackstone Academy novel), that the people in the Blackstone Academy novels are people I can gossip about. Some of them, in particular the professors, ( Read more... )

First item of business, Steampunk Musha RPG, the Iron Gauntlets version, got a review! It's been out for awhile now, so I'm pleased to see that people are still finding it--and even more pleased that people are enjoying it when they do. The d20 version is still planned to be out there some time, and hopefully more folks will find it then, as well ( Read more... )

Quick link: writer Dan Copulsky is looking for small contributions to his novel: short biographies in the voices of sixth grade students. You can learn more about it from his recent entry.I have been quite verbose in a couple of recent comments on other people's blogs about editors, writing partners, and workshopping pieces. This started when ( Read more... )

A fun thing happened while I was in Greece--I received an invitation to submit a biography to the French roleplaying site, GROG: Guide du Roliste Galactique. Of course, I was a bit busy to fill out their questionnaire at the time. Yesterday, I finally got back to the site editor and contributed my biography, which he has already translated and ( Read more... )

So, though I was trying the write a sentence a day technique, what I ended up writing didn't feel right to me. The character didn't have the voice I remembered her having when I first "met" her, and so I scratched that beginning and decided to start over. After talking about a number of writing exercises (which helped me get some perspective), I ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation with my chiropractor yesterday and talking about my writing. In response to my saying something about how I was delaying on a project, she made the comment, "Well, don't be your own worst enemy ( Read more... )

I wrote this yesterday on fantastic_realm, but since it has to do with what I'm realizing about the new YA novel (which I'm going to start tagging under Blackstone), I thought I'd x-post here ( Read more... )