Hey, all.

So in my last post, I mentioned that there's a Kickstarter up for the Hidden Youth anthology, which I'll have a story in if it gets funded ( Read more... )

So this year I was on the pre-convention Seminar before Fourth Street. Despite covering professionalism, voice, and critique in 3 separate discussions, we barely got through half of the things we had notes for, which is about par for the course. So here are some notes on one of the topics we didn't get to.

( Premise problems vs. structure problems vs. text problems )

So. Let's talk about foundational narratives ( Read more... )

So it's a new year, and I'm up early for no discernible reason. I suppose I should probably talk about last year in writing.

I had three original fiction publications and one translation/reprint in 2014:

The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Re-Capitation (co-written with Marissa Lingen), On Spec, Winter

Atonement, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February ( Read more... )

So several of my friends (most proximately mrissa) have been blogging about their current projects and writing process as a part of a Writing Process Blog Tour. The questions in the prompt were interesting enough that I figured it wouldn't be bad to join in. (You can find Marissa's post here.)

1) What am I working on?My current project has the working ( Read more... )

So my story "Atonement" is up on BCS today. It's set in a fantasy Sogdia, and is full of female soldiers, hungry ghosts, eunuch exorcists, Buddhist monks, Zoroastrians, and daevas. Spread the word, if you're so inclined.

So I just got my contributor's copies of the July/August issue of Analog in the mail. "Milk Run", which mrissa and I co-wrote, can be found on page 80. Yay ( Read more... )

So Mrissa and I both have stories in today's Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Armistice Day" (Mrissa) and "Blood Remembers" (me ( Read more... )

So that's a revised draft.

One of the things I noticed in going back to Vicious for the Nth time in a decade is that I've since learned not to waste words specifying exactly where a character is looking, or every twitch of their lips, or precisely how they're holding their sword... You get the idea. Anyway, there was a lot of that cluttering up my ( Read more... )

By chapter-count, anyway ( Read more... )