Querying: Just so you know that occasionally I actually do things when I say I'm going to, I did begin sending out query letters after my last post. I am mostly still waiting impatiently for responses.

The Overworld: Feedback from a few of my brilliant and insightful friends was quicker to arrive, and now I know about some big things still wrong ( Read more... )

Okay, so, you may remember that back in December I went on about my excitement at finishing my latest revision of The Overworld. You may also remember that I said, "I have a bit of text cleanup to do in the next couple of weeks." Well, what with travel and holidays and my computer breaking and all, what was legitimately only a couple weeks of ( Read more... )

In 2008, I ( continued my tradition of doing things. )

A few days ago, I was getting down with the happy dance of joy. (Sorry, no video evidence exists.) The reason for my dancing foolishness is that I once again made it to The End of The Overworld, the novel I've been working on for most of the past three years. ( gruesome details inside )

So, the deadline and all that. When I got back from vacation and back to work on revisions, I had a couple chapters of smooth sailing (or whatever metaphor I'm currently abusing). Then I finally had to face the pacing and sequencing problems I knew existed in the last third of the novel, and that required long sessions of scribbling notes in tiny ( Read more... )

All right, so I told you about the novel I'm going to write next, but the more astute among you may be thinking, "Hey, Lisa, isn't there another novel you're kind of in the middle of? Still?" (Okay, even the comatose among you are thinking this.) To which I answer, "Yes, of course, I'm still hard at work revising The Overworld, but that's okay, ( Read more... )

Friends ( Read more... )

I started writing up an index post, and that means that it's almost certainly time for ( the somewhat annual index post! )

People who know me well may be under the impression that I spend all my time thinking about my current novel. After all, I'm sure as hell not thinking about whatever it is they're talking about. But this is not true. I actually spend a good percentage of my time thinking about previous and future novels. For example, just recently I've been ( Read more... )

Well, it's been seven weeks since my last entry (Bless me, LiveJournal, for I have sinned...), so I must have lots and lots of things to report.

Okay, there aren't really that many things. Mostly I've been editing The Overworld again. Yes, again. But this is it, finally. By "it", I do not mean that this is the last edit the novel will need, ( Read more... )