There are approximately five reasons I am willing to miss a Not Providence update (assuming I don't individuate all the different reasons I or a loved one could be having a medical emergency). One of the good ones just happened ( Read more... )

As the caul of unemployment and subsequent denial of reality sloughs away from my face, I find myself enjoying rather unique experiences in the world; quirks that a week or so ago might have gone unnoticed, or better yet enraged me, and now just make me chuckle and add it to the list. Today, it was a pigeon crossing Mission Street with a bumbling ( Read more... )

Got up. Ate breakfast. Gathered up my thesis. Printed out my query materials for Done With Mirrors and got them into a large binder clip for shipping purposes, while watching the first episode of Darkplace on the television company's website (survey says: freakin' hilarious ( Read more... )

There is little that is as cool as a character explaining themselves to you as you write a prequel with them in it, and you discover the reasons for their behavior in your original work.

I know now why Chandra broke up with Black Tom prior to the events of DWM. Neat.

Alright, an exercise ( Read more... )

It feels good to take a break from the writing aspect of writing, and to work on editing. I am fixing up "Pity the Child" in the hopes of sending it out soon, and am working on editing the first three chapters of Done With Mirrors in the hopes that a query will be ready to go to Scribe and Tor soon. It's not time to start A Kindness of Ravens yet ( Read more... )

Grr. Blarg. Oof ( Read more... )

Three...thousand...words...

Nearly 2k written today in Ether Street, plus another 1.5k in "Live from the Serpent Room" (getting to have the right feel is turning out to be a royal bitch, especially since one of the characters has decided they're incredibly wordy and prone to what the magic community of the Mirror-verse would call "thrice-great ( Read more... )

(cross-posted to blatantlyhonestOkay, I suck at this agency research stuff...anyone (and here I am thinking of Desuvan and Saraphina) know anything about Scribe Literary Agency, or the agents Khristopher O'Higgins and Jesse Vogel? They look like they might be right up my alley, but I want to be sure that we haven't got it on good authority they use their agency ( Read more... )

I've noticed a disturbing tendency lately to use my title as the first sentence or half-sentence of my entries. I wish to avoid this, in the same way that I wish to avoid the phrase "ragged breath" or its cousin "ragged sigh" in my creative writing. Now then, I've something of a bulleted list here.

( Bullets Over Head Street )