I started writing again on Monday. I think 700 words a day will be a very healthy pace, physically, though it remains to be seen how sticking to that small of a daily limit affects the pacing of my material ( Read more... )

I've said it before and I'll reiterate every once and again-- I don't consider this an official "writing" blog. It's more of a place where the accountant side of my brain makes to-do lists (in ordered or rambly form) and talks about how inspired I am to achieve them and hope that my readers have more meaningful things to do with their lives than ( 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... )

Anne Elisabeth Stengl has some wonderful advice on manuscript editing over on her blog. Like all writing advice, it's good for some, not-so-good for others. I know for a fact this is ideal advice for emmaorgana but terrible advice for grav_ity. ;-)

A friend posted on Facebook that he read the first chapter of The Hunger Games last night and had no subsequent problems putting it down and getting some sleep. He asked his friends: "Do you think I'm doing it wrong ( Read more... )

I'm passing this along from fifmeister's LJ. It's a very interesting breakdown of the ending of Mass Effect 3, with respect to the uproar in the fandom. I should probably specify that I have never played the game, as gaming and I just never seemed to jive together, but I kind of have the gist of things from the outskirts, since so many of my friends are huge ( Read more... )

So most of you who follow this blog at the moment know both me and laura_josephsen. For those of you who don't Laura is my coauthor. For any blog tour guests who are coming here for the first time because they know Laura but don't know me, Welcome! Laura is my coauthor. We are writing the YA Fantasy Series "Restoration" together. This week Laura released her ( Read more... )

Say "blog plug" 10 x fast.

For anybody interested in following, laura_josephsen's official writing blog, Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Writing, without having to take the trouble to sign up or run out of your way to check Blogger, I have set up a successful RSS feed here on LJ:

laura_blogger laura_blogger laura_bloggerNote: If you want to leave a comment for Laura, it'd probably best to ( Read more... )

My laptop is in my bag, packed and ready to go for a rare treat: a Panera write-in after work tonight. Despite my rickety devotion of the last week, we are still making more progress on Restoration Book 4 in the past six weeks than we have in the past year-and-a-half combined.

(Oh, yeah, Laura, I didn't get anything new written yesterday. ( Read more... )

Anne Elisabeth Stengl, author of the Christy Award-winning Heartless was kind enough to answer a question of mine as the subject of a post in her blog "Tales from Goldstone Wood". My question was about the issue of negative feedback and what her experiences have been so far, and how she deals with it. Her answer is quite thorough and very helpful ( Read more... )