So, several weeks back I had the realization that if I could steal time to write 500 words a day I'd have 2000 words of Tales of MU every posting day, what I consider to be the bare minimum for a chapter. Bare minimum chapters aren't great and I'm never satisfied with bare minimum, but sometimes... bare minimum happens. When conditions are slightly ( Read more... )

When I was a little kid, I liked to run ( Read more... )

So, I have two hours of writing under my belt for today and 2,400 words to show for it. I started writing what's either one or two new erotica stories. I say "one or two" because I started with one story idea but now I'm not sure that the set-up I wrote goes with the action. It might either be thrown out, or grow into something else ( Read more... )

So, I'm in favor of authors owning their digital rights to new works, and of taking charge of one's back catalogue of things where the rights have lapsed to them. Digital publishing lets you turn those works into a revenue stream and keep them accessible to new readers ( Read more... )

So, my Informal Internet Straw Poll (i.e., me looking at my flists) tells me that a number of people who hated "Let's Kill Hitler" loved "Night Terrors". It's pretty easy to see why. I have more nice things to say about LKH than most people seem to, but its flaws are pretty gaping, and "Night Terrors" is... well, Mark Gatiss can write, but this is ( Read more... )

Aaaargh. I have a distinct memory of having written up a description of Eloise Desjardins's background, originally as a blog post but then I ended up not posting it because I thought it would make a good Random MU Bit for the newsletter... then the newsletter was delayed and delayed and now here I am set to work it into the story and I can't ( Read more... )

As part of getting the logjam in my head unjammed, I spent a lot of time yesterday and today just writing whatever came into my head. It's a useful technique for getting past writer's block (and writer's overwhelming sense of self-doubt, a much more common and worrisome problem than writer's block), especially as it sometimes turns out usable stuff ( Read more... )

So, today I sat down and wrote 4,000 words. (That's two Stephen Kings). It wasn't the Tales of MU chapter I've been stuck on... but that's the point, I was getting myself unstuck. The only part of it that's ready for public consumption is a new flash story on Fantasy in Miniature. The rest was groundwork for Star Harbor Nights relaunch. The point ( Read more... )

Got a question on my Twitter the other day, in response (I believe) to one of my "prepping" tweets:

I have several "rituals" I do before sitting down to write; these help my subconscious muse get ready. What is your process?
Well, to answer that: I don't have a lot of "rituals", per se. My habits are too protean in nature... I acquire them quickly ( Read more... )

So, in the most recent chapter of Tales of MU, I put some mouseover text and links to help explain some of the references. The use of the term "Universal Temple" has caused confusion before... the reference feels obvious to me, being 1) an adult child of what was a Catholic family and 2) an etymology nerd, but some people have thought it was a ( Read more... )