It's Writo de Mayo! That means it's the month when nanoljers sets goals to get done what needs doing. Some people do a full Nanowrimo at 50k or even a solid 10k, others revise, or critique, or just... whatever. It's flexible. It's writing while being engaged in real life ( Read more... )

Word count on Breath of Earth as of last night:

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"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." ~Jack London
Today had a miserably early start as my son woke up sick at 5:15AM. Nothing wakes me up like stepping in vomit! He's been sick again as well, but isn't running a fever. Trying to squeeze in computer time as I run back and forth to check on him. He's happily watching ( Read more... )

My Writo de Mayo story, "A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows," has been accepted for Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia to be published by Woodland Press.

Am I happy? Well, I ran through the house screaming, "I'm in the anthology! I'm in the anthology!" So yeah, I'm a wee bit ecstatic about this.

Huge, HUGE thanks to nanoljers for running Writo ( Read more... )

Today's Arizona Republic had an article on a new book about/from Ray Bradbury called Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews. Yes, Bradbury is still going strong at 89. The very end of the article featured a quote from the book:

"My life has been a fight against death. I finish a story, go to the mailbox, drop it in and say, 'Okay, Death ( Read more... )

Well. It's been quite a month. My cat lost the end of her tail, my son graduated preschool, and I did a whole lot of editing. I continued to work through Normal while doing about a dozen smaller projects as well. Many submissions have been made, and a few have been rejected already--and one sent right back out again ( Read more... )

I'll save my big Writo de Mayo recap for tomorrow. I hate sticking that progress block onto every post.

Work continues on Normal. I'm at the end, which means I'm adding several thousand words to build up the climax and make it fit the rest of the new material. This also means I'm delving into the medical books to create some fresh scenes, which is ( Read more... )

Fast post, but a necessary one ( Read more... )

One of the recurring issues in Normal is Celeste's guilt at her inability to heal others. Her whole life, she's been able to touch people and heal away their physical woes, yet now all she can do is hold them while they bleed ( Read more... )

Since today is my tenth wedding anniversary (*gasp*) and my husband actually has the day off (*GASP*) I'm devoting the day to family time. Well, I have done a bit of editing already today, but nothing major.

I've spent the past few days on Normal doing minor tweaks. As shown at the bottom of the Writo de Mayo goals, the word count has fluctuated a ( Read more... )