In follow-up to this, I just realized: OMG, Wile E. Coyote is the patron animal of writers.

This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/234646.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.

Randomly web surfing, and this hit me so hard I wanted to put it here so I could find it again.

"I want every day to be different and unpredictable: some days writing, some days researching, some days touring, some days doing things I could’ve never imagined."
     - Maggie Stiefvater

This is one of the reasons she chose to be a writer, and, yes, it's ( Read more... )

I have written a 3600-word story in six days, 1600 of it yesterday. That is very nearly unprecedented for me -- despite the story fighting me every step of the way.

And despite my having referred to it as a "flaccid lump of story" at one point, I ended up with something I'm actually pretty happy with. My alpha reader laughed in the right places, ( Read more... )

My shoulder is mostly recovered. But you know what turns out to still be excruciatingly painful? Typing quickly and for any length of time on my "writing" laptop in my usual writing-in-bed position ( Read more... )

One of the problems with me not writing -- which I haven't been much, lately -- is that my brain takes all the energy and creativity that should be going toward creating fiction and applies it to anxiety dreams. Really vivid, detailed anxiety dreams. Yeah ( Read more... )

I meant to get the novel done before the beginning of May. Then before MediaWest. Then before the end of May. Then June 21?, which would have been exactly the four-year mark since I started. Then the end of June. Then the end of July. At least I made it before BistoCon, which was deadline... six? seven? of the current crop. There were ( Read more... )

I have cleaned up the area around the old desktop machine a bit, to make it more congenial for writing and increase the odds that when I sit down to write, I will not get distracted by some other task before I finish getting my butt into the chair. This involved less completing of tasks than I would have liked, and more finding somewhere else to ( Read more... )

The situation with the writing laptop is stressing me out ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating time management lately. Or rather, I've been thinking that I need to contemplate time management, but I don't have time to do it.

Finding time to write is always a challenge for writers. The only way I've ever found to get significant writing done is to make writing the top priority, and let everything else go. All right, ( Read more... )

...and it is "We would like to publish your story".

Yes, folks, I am delighted to announce that Daily Science Fiction has accepted "Off The Map" for publication ( Read more... )