Had an insight/idea this morning that so excited me (it solved a huge riddle in my twelve-planet universe, consolidated a trait across several worlds and allowed for it to develop differently AND IT'S COOL) that I wrote three snippets of short story/book in an hour, making us late to leave. But I'm glad I did it because now I'm tired and not ( Read more... )

I've been stewing lately (well, for months) about not really knowing where I am with my writing ( Read more... )

1,000 words so far. 9,000 left to go TODAY. I can do this.

Thankfuls will commence when I reach 50K. But I guess I'm thankful I have the opportunity to try to get there. And that I'm still having fun.

Update on the manuscript I'm calling NINTH PLANET'S CHILD ( Read more... )

Had an idea for a meaty thought-post and it's gone, flew the coop, ran away with the spoon, might have taken my common sense with it. So here's a half-assed update instead ( Read more... )

In the last two days I've stumbled, more or less by complete happenstance, over a trick I want to remember: reading aloud as a way of regaining engagement with the world ( Read more... )

Or something like that. I didn't really get rolling on the editing/revisions yesterday until noon, and then I got really rolling, so I focused there. Five more scenes, 24 paltry pages, a new grand total of 18 percent done done done.

( GRATEFULS then. )

I have passed the halfway point in the new goal of outlining the latest revision in detail, scene-by-scene, so I can *see* the problems and fix them in some coherent fashion. (As opposed to the hack-and-flail method, which has resulted in four revisions but ... seriously needs work. And improved speed. And... yeah ( Read more... )

I love Ursula LeGuin.

There is now a breathtakingly sensible and clear petition to the court opposing the Google Settlement. Published authors may contact her via that link to be added to the petition. Act before Jan. 25.

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