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Life and Writing.
It's the end of the week, and I feel very much as if my brain is "argle blargle wargle." You see, I haven't had much sleep, and there's been a few reasons for this. They include the weather, joint pain, my cat deciding to be a LOUD conversationalist at silly o'clock in the morning, and finally, my Nano novel ( Read more... ) -
Cover art! Giveaways! Characters! Links! In serial!
I have been quite slack in keeping up with my blog these last few weeks--all I can say is that I've not been 100% and my back has twinges which render me useless for a day at a time, so things have been stressful. However, there are some things happening that I want to share with you all, so here we go!
- The Romance Reviews Year End Splash Party ( Read more... )
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Sundries.
It feels like forever since I've posted anything. That's due to the fact I've been very sick. I'm starting to recover, slowly, but I still find myself getting worn out very easily and still feel a bit "flat," for want of a better word. Ten days after my night in the emergency room in hospital, I *still* have a large blood bruise on my left arm from ( Read more... ) -
Nanovember
I have finished my Nano novel. It feels very strange right now, to have a Saturday night with nothing to write - although that's not exactly true, I do have things to write, I'm just taking a wee break - so I've been faffing with Paint Shop Pro instead ( Read more... ) -
Sundries for November.
I've been pretty quiet on the blogging front here the last several weeks, and I apologise for that. Things have been all varieties of hectic, so I haven't had the energy or the time to participate in things I enjoy that I normally would, like Six Sentence Sunday or Thursday Thirteen ( Read more... ) -
Snoopy Dance of Joy! "No Quarter" is Under Contract.
Today is a good day.
Even though I had a blood test done this morning (a regular thing - it never gets less unpleasant), nothing was going to ruin my good mood. And why such a good mood? I woke up to a lovely email from Dreamspinner Press, offering me a contract for the first novel in The Archangel Chronicles.
So No Quarter, the novel that went ( Read more... ) -
Musing on Words.
I am a writing machine!
Okay, not really. However, I completed NanoWriMo this year, coming in at 50629 words. I managed to finish a story for submission to a Valentine's Day themed anthology due by the 8th January 2011, which is called Life And Nothing But.
Currently, I'm working on a story for submission to the Dreamspinner First Time anthology ( Read more... ) -
Nano and The Writing Process.
Once again, I am doing Nano. I find the Nano experience to be particularly helpful as I am, I'm ashamed to admit, a procrastinator. The spirit and camaraderie of Nano and the word count updates on a daily basis do help me stay focused and work. This year, I have come up with a daily routine that I think might actually be the one. That is to say, ( Read more... ) -
Writing Good Guys versus Bad Guys.
In putting fingers to keyboard this Nano, I've discovered something I've long suspected to be true: writing good guys is harder than writing bad guys ( Read more... )
