Yesterday, I went to a gun show, played Lego Indiana Jones with a Nintendo-style controller (a first ever), beat the level, and made chicken stock.

Today just couldn't win with that kind of competition...

Day 27 of the Month of Images was next, many moons ago, and demands a glamor shot. My favorite is still this one I took of myself while traveling ( Read more... )

This is for the project I'm trying to rewrite line-by-blessed-line, all 45000 words of the first volume, so pardon me for all this random stuff.

But! I found a cool scan!
This is my only extant example of the working grammar of the language created for this book XD because the writing system was one thing, as was creating a small body of words, ( Read more... )

It's been 2 years, but I there's still no better words than "trousers" or "house", and they both have the wrong sound for this book.

Oh English. You fail me so infrequently, I just can't quite believe this.

in case of any suggestions: home is to personal to be used, though it's sound is better, and pants is also too sibilant and wrong-vowelled. All ( Read more... )

More Writing Philosophy from Unusual Sources

I think I'm condensing a few different statements into one idea (so I can't find the quote) but in Michael Shurtleff's Audition, he talks about when you're working with a partner who isn't working with you.

This, he says, is valuable, because the harder you have to fight to get across, the stronger the ( Read more... )

This is a meme; it was more interesting this time around. It's partly that I'm doing better with opening lines, especially for short stories, and partly that I've been doing a lot of short stories.

List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. (And flist, I'd love your opinions on patterns you notice.)

1) ( Read more... )

...It feels kind of odd to post without any eye-candy. I must be strong!

Okay. So I caved. At least there's no cartoon bishies...
What I am Writing--an occasional series

I'm waffling. No doubt about it. It's strange to not have a writing project eating my brain, because it was always *something*.
I don't know if I've broken myself somehow, or if it's ( Read more... )

I am doing line-edits on Aolon.
On the opening of the first volume, to be exact.
Which has a syntax of the comparative fluidity and clarity of oak planks. My effort to create something better resembles sawing said plank with a butter knife.

Not impossible, no. More hopeful still if I have exaggerated slightly, and the butter knife is actual a steel ( Read more... )

Back in the US and I'm freezing.

In LA, I'm freezing. Not. Good.

However, Vol. 5 of Aolon is getting a once-over in which I'm cleaning up a lot of sentences. It's huge for me to see them and not just cringe away and leave them for later until I don't see it anymore, and I'm enjoying the story, which is even better, getting both in one.

When my ( Read more... )

The year is almost gone. Quite a few things I am looking forward to happen in '08, so I think I'll be ready to write the correct date when it changes.

My druthers have chosen to go out with a bang in terms of reading.
This contributes to the fact that I brought home 16 books from the library.
What also contributes is that I've been compiling "research ( Read more... )

So I'm at 56000 words in Vol. 4. I've been creeping for the last 5000, but it's more than I realized.

I think there's still more story than I'm allowing, too, so that's half the uphill work.

Once more into the breach!

~For the end and for freedom!~

Today, interspersed with Useful Things, I read Blade Dancer. The title made me pick it up despite my ( Read more... )