So, I'm on the big countdown 'til the Bones finale - which, despite desperately trying to avoid spoilers, I keep hearing rumblings about. Mostly bad rumblings, but I choose to ignore them. I remain cautiously optimistic. It's a thing I'm trying. In order not to dwell on what may or may not be happening tonight, then, I'm going back to last week's ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know it has been months and months (or like a month and a half, but you get my drift) since my last update, so I imagine this will be a lengthy one. For that reason, let's try to be organized, shall we? In no particular order, here are our topics...

(1) Murder in the Marriage and other Exciting Fanfic News
(2) Jen's RL Writing
(3) Fangirl ( Read more... )

HEY! I know, I know - I've been out of sight for many moons, which seems to be my M.O. these days. October was an interesting month, starting with the decision that I would dive deeply into the world of the Professional Journalist and then culminating with what I can only describe as a complete, anxiety-ridden freaking psychic meltdown at the end ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know it's been a bizillion years since I last updated, and I haven't been 'round a smidge, but... well, yeah, I've been writing. Writing and writing and writing and writing. And watching tons of NCIS, and reading a lot. And listening to audio books. And working, of course. Damn, man, I've been busy! I have about seventy-five pages left ( Read more... )

Hey lovely Flist, So I've been working like a good little soldier on all the writing of late, in between anxiety attacks and sickly hounds. I have the proposal for the memoir pretty much together, along with the first several chapters of the story itself. And then, of course, there's Last Rites - and I actually wanted to get some opinions on this ( Read more... )

I just got the times for my agent sessions on the 22nd - wahoo and woot! And ugh, of course, because... Well, because of the anxiety and the nausea and all those other things that make life in my skin so much fun. I'm meeting with four separate agents, ten minutes each. The first appointment is at nine a.m., which means I'll either have to spend ( Read more... )

So, I only got 1500 words for the novel today - however, I worked the day job and cooked dog stew (that's Stew FOR Dogs, not Stew OF Dogs), and did other responsible, grown up things, so... I guess 1500 will have to do, for now. But here's my favorite passage so far from Last Rites - which is very happily occupying my every thought at the moment, ( Read more... )

So, I spent today in this odd little nether-world, where I was excited about really and truly diving into the novel but at the same time was honestly very sad about leaving Bones behind for a while. Because, well... I love those guys. But, like the good little soldier that I am, I put away my index cards and my victim lists and my inspirational ( Read more... )

That's right - just finished the monumental, epic, 200,000+ word Killer in the Classroom. I'll try to post it all here on lj tomorrow, but in the meantime, it can be found here. It's very, very long. I have to take a brief hiatus from the beautiful world of fanfic now, of course, in order to finish the novel I mentioned a few posts back so that I ( Read more... )

So, I was calculating the other day and according to publishers and editors and likeminded folk, the average manuscript page is 250 words. And at the moment, Killer in the Classroom is at 157,000+ words - and growing. Now, I'm not a math whiz or anything, but I'm fairly certain that means my little whodunit is officially like 68 GAZILLION pages ( Read more... )