Here's a scene from the new version of Bird. I wrote this today at work so it's a little rough. This is where Ellie meets another person that's cursed.

I’d never seen a curse quite so large or complex. It seemed to originate at his throat and spread from there. Several tendrils disappeared beneath the collar of his white shirt. More of it crawled ( Read more... )

Have you ever done something different writing-wise because it sounded like such a good idea in your head but no matter how hard you try to get it on paper, it just never hooks you? Like you get excited thinking about it and plotting it and then you sit down to write and before you know it, you've emptied out the junk drawer, organized it and moved ( Read more... )

I'm working on that Victorian fantasy I talked about forever ago. Well, I guess I can't say I'm working on it so much as I'm toying with it.

Here's the opening paragraph:

Ellie rubbed the curse mark on the underside of her wrist. It appeared on her thirteenth birthday, a sure sign she’d inherited the curse through family lineage. It wasn’t her fault ( Read more... )

With AA out there and Possession still under consideration, I thought it was time to take a break (a little break). I've been reading more. I read Nickel and Dimed over the weekend. I just started Midnighters yesterday and really like it so far. I'm about halfway through A Great and Terrible Beauty. I'm on week four with that book now. It's not as ( Read more... )