How much do we love Nano? Seriously, at some point in the past decade it stopped being an exercise to help newbie writers get over the "this is crap" stall-out of dejection and became this glorious, freakish, masochistic Writer's Christmas ( Read more... )

Since my last post about worldbuilding and invisible worlds I haven't done very much, but what little I have done has been gratifying:

• Made a "grab bag" list of minor characters (and their superpowers, if any) for the Superhero Thing
• Did some Restoration planning with laura_josephsen. (In person! Over lunch! It felt just like old times!) :-)
• Wrote 122 words for ( Read more... )

So after finishing Oathborn last Friday I hit my first "switch gears" moment of the year. Time to work on something else. I can't get too far behind, after all ( Read more... )

So apparently I haven't posted in over a week. There are various things going on.

Little Women rehearsals are really starting to gear up. Also, according to laura_josephsen, I apparently never formally relayed via LJ that I auditioned for this play, let alone got cast. Yes, the Canal Fulton Players are performing Little Women. And I am in it. As Marmee. And I ( Read more... )

Last night I went to Books-a-Million and wrote 2,455 words of the Superhero thing, which I am co-writing with melyanna. There were shameless pop culture references and one really good accounting joke. I am going to repeat the achievement this afternoon (well, the word count part. Brilliant accounting humor can only be coaxed, not forced ( Read more... )

To run the risk of sounding overly dramatic, today may have been a turning point in my writing career ( Read more... )

A long, long time ago when laura_josephsen and I were a million discussions deep into "Restoration" and the mythology of the world was finally starting to congeal, I made the following lofty, sweeping suggestion ( Read more... )

Hellloooooo 2012 ( Read more... )

Why 5,000 words per week?

Short Answer: It's substantial. It's manageable. It's flexible. It's middle of the road.

( Long Answer, full of backstory, bullet points, musings, and attempts at cleverness )