Dearest Readers! I’m late! I’m late! For a very important progress report!

I actually think the experiment is going pretty well. Yes, I did not post to my blog as I meant to, but I have worked on L&W every day since I started (haven’t done today’s yet). I’ll make a list:

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( Changing Covers )

1. I said in my last post that I love "discovering" writers writing cleverly about things I find interesting.  Here is Ana Mardoll whose feminist "Deconstructions" are all good. (Click on "Index" at the top to get to a list of all her "Deconstructions") Some examples:
Deconstruction of The Beauty and the Beast (by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de ( Read more... )

Location in Current Project: Chapter Seven (The Earth-Knight's Labors)
Worry about this chapter: The primary action consists of building a privy.
Weird writing phenomenon in this chapter: The pace was too slow, so I had to make less stuff happen.
Prognosis for the next session: Good.  Today I realized that a certain character would have a different ( Read more... )

Go read Karen Healey's (karenhealey ) Guardian of the Dead! Go read it right now!! That is all.

OK, OK, I'll say more. So, last night I didn't get enough sleep (but still managed to have a vivid and strange dream...) because I stayed up finishing this book. It's not exactly about fairies, but it's similar. Its tone reminds me very much of both The Demon's ( Read more... )

Before we begin, which is, of course, a way of beginning, I wanted to mention the very strange, very vivid dreams I've been having lately. Two nights ago (?) I dreamed I was planting lotuses. No, really. And I totally want to incorporate that into L&W somewhere...but I think it probably won't fit. Last night, actually this morning... Well, I don't ( Read more... )

In part to prove I'm not dead. Actually, I can't prove that. This could be an automated message. In case it is, Press One. [pause] Your visit is important to us. Please enjoy the music while this post is being processed. [Musak plays...This tune is familiar...You're remembering part of the chorus...It's something about love and strength or ( Read more... )

I like to read author blogs, particularly fantasy author blogs, because 1) some of them are very interesting and 2) I like to be aware of the market, even though I do not read current fantasy books while working on a project. (I do, of course, read other things--as mentioned in my auto-cannibalism post, which is around here somewhere...Ah! Here we ( Read more... )

( In Defense of Human Sacrifice )

Dear Universe,

To whom do I speak about returns? See, I really didn't need Another Excuse to Be Lazy. I'm sure somebody else could use it a lot better than I could. I'd really like to give it back. It's never even been opened, see? What could I use it for? I mean, besides not being so hard on myself for not being able to write a novel in four weeks ( Read more... )