Originally published at Lise Fracalossi. You can comment here or there.

I’ve set various writing goals this year, and this post is to check my progress on them, since it’s now about halfway through the year.

In January I said I wanted to do something writing-related every day - at least 50% of the days. It looks like my current percentage is 42%, ( Read more... )

Last day of my Thanksgiving break, and it was a good one--a fine mix of productivity and fun ( Read more... )

I recently had one of the pals I made through Pitch Wars (@VlosAri, another writer of adult fantasy) reading Gods and Fathers. She had things to say about something I'd never thought too much about before--Serevic's hair color ( Read more... )

Since I had fun with the last one, I put together a new one. As it happens, Triplux, the site/dude who did the original 101 goals in 1001 days, has put together a tool for this, so you can view my over-ambitious list hereAs I said, I'm not gonna stress about these goals; they are simply to form a picture of the kind of exciting life I'd like to ( Read more... )

As I suspected, my August goals are entirely too ambitious ( Read more... )

This has been a massively productive month, full of breakthroughs.

On Lioness:

( Read more... )

Every summer I say I want to do two things:

1) I want to go to the beach.
2) I want to go to a fair.

Necessary caveats: an ocean beach (I can go to a lake-beach any time), and an agricultural fair (I'm not interested in like the state fair, or any other really big, commercial fairs).Every summer for at least the past five? ten? years, I've ( Read more... )

Decided I would post my 1-2 page synopsis of Gods & Fathers on Codex to see if I got any feedback. For reference, I also posted my query, which I was pretty happy with ( Read more... )

I decided that rather than continuing to wallow in my writerly angst, I needed to actually get back on track. May 1st seemed like a good time for new beginnings. Back in the North Country, trilliums would be blooming; it was the start of the new year in Riverun, that liminal dream world I created in my backyard as a teenager ( Read more... )

In news of submitting G&F...- Sent email query, full MS, and synopsis to an agent of a friend at the intercession of said friend. It is kind of nice to jump in line like this, but it also means I have to wait longer for a reply. Friendly!Agent got back to me same day and told me so himself--that he would need a chunk of time to read. Seems like a ( Read more... )