I have established a general pattern for this book, it goes something like this: 1) writewritewrite 5 - 10,000 words. 2) Reach previously unthought-of plot development/scene that seems boring. 3) Ponderponderponder next scene for about a week. 4) Make major change to prior storyline without revising. 5) writewritewrite, rinse, repeat. Throw in the ( Read more... )

So you may or may not have noticed that I have been somewhat absent of late… things at the Day Job spiraled out of control and I had to basically give up anything resembling a life for a little while. Which is to say, for about a month, my schedule has been: Get up at 5:30, thirty minutes or so of basic intertubes to wake up (only the essentials: ( Read more... )

The very talented Aliette de Bodard had some nice things to say about my story Spamdemonium over at The Fix. She reviews the entire issue, so take a look and see what other good things are going on in there, too. The current issue of Baen's with Spamdemonium in it is still available on-line, a mere six bucks for heck of a lot of content.

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I must tell myself, it’s the end product that matters, it’s the end product that matters…

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Some recent blogs about blogging (I guess that makes them metablogs, which sounds like an awesome Transformers villain) caught my eye regarding how much one should or should not show of their WIP. Personally, I love reading blogs about people’s writing dilemmas and how they solve them, or their successes and how they were inspired to them, and I ( Read more... )

When my brother lived nearby (e.g., not on the opposite coast of the U.S. or, as now, on the opposite side of the world), we used to make a point every year of getting together for a huge hiking trip. One year, we decided to do a nice little four-day deal on the Foothills Trail in our native South Carolina. It was extremely hot that year, but we ( Read more... )

Where have I been lately? I've been a-writin'! W00t! So far I am 14,056 words into my first attempted novel, my "training novel" as it were, and things are coming along quite decently. Granted, this is after about 10,000 words of trashed material just to hit the right starting point, and I am sure there are many thousands yet to come. Still, it's ( Read more... )