Wanted to thank everyone that gave me feedback on my short story, Home. I submitted an updated/edited version to the Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing contest and won an Honorable Mention Winner in the Fiction category. It will be published as part of an annual publication the contest puts out ( Read more... )

I sort of fell off the LJ train after my thirty days of posting thing.

Final Non-Nano November report: 65 out of 117 scenes

52 left for December.

These are the mini-scenes I identified for clean-up, double-checking, and/or composing.

Might have gotten a few more done over Turkey Day weekend, except I had another short story to write for my ( Read more... )

Conference in Phoenix for work this week means my mornings are getting eaten up by commuting, and my evenings involve collapse. Plus, this evening: comet!

Scene countdown, 11/11/14: 81 30%

11/1: 117

11/2: 106

11/3: 100

Looks like I'm speeding along, but the scenes I'm working on will only get progressively more involved the further I go. I sorted them more or less by how much work needs to be done, so the ones I'm working on now are short, almost completed, or just need a polish. Then I will move on to longer, meandering scenes ( Read more... )

...I have taken the remainder of the chapters for the second draft of my novel and divided them into a bunch of little mini-scenes, 117 in all, for clean-up, double-checking, and/or composing. I am going to try to get as many finished between now and the end of December as possible.

Actually at 106 left to do after yesterday and today.

I have not been posting lately, except for the onslaught of September birthday greetings. Things are just kind of all happening at once around here ( Read more... )

(1) I am exhausted. Literally, fall-over-into-bed-after-work exhausted. Combination of Spring insomnia, work-work busy-ness, and daily novel rewrite sessions, methinks. Also, not having taken a whole lot of vacation since Christmas ( Read more... )

Spoiler warning: Skin Game (The Dresden Files)

A while back, I posted an angst about point of view and the pacing of information reveals in my novel. My novel is, at its core, a mystery. The answers to the mystery gradually unfold for the reader as the protagonists investigate and make discoveries. In the first draft, I set a major "reveal" ( Read more... )

About two years ago, I paid a good peck to get my author website professionally designed and hosted. The woman was really easy to work with, and I chose her because I was impressed with other author websites she'd done, so I had high hopes for the site. But when she presented the design draft to me, it was kind of a patchy-looking eyesore. I gave ( Read more... )

I realized May is half over and I have not updated my LJ. I'm around, I read my flist every day and respond to stuff that catches my eye. Work is still busy, and my novel second draft is progressing, and there's not a lot of variation in that schedule that's post-worthy. Plus, I'm just plain exhausted ( Read more... )