I had two opportunities to talk about writing today with writers, which is really weird and unusual and lovely and should happen more often. Both of these too-brief conversations were held before the beginning of a class, and inevitably there were other (non-writer) people listening. In my Clarissa seminar the guy who sits across from me noticed my ( Read more... )

Post a sentence (or two) from as many of your WIPs as you want, with no explanation attached. Meme from araine. Perhaps as expected, very few of these are actually one sentence ( Read more... )

Item 1. I am still writing that fantasy cross-dressing story for anenko that I started drafting as my NaNoWriMo project this past November. I'm posting it one chapter at a time on its own journal, gil_and_leah, and you should check it out because the more people I know are reading it, the greater my motivation becomes to update at something approximating regular ( Read more... )

I had a totally awesome weekend. Steph Brown had an interview on Saturday in San Francisco for transferring to the UCLA theater department, so she and Matt drove up here on Friday and stayed with me. We spent literally ALL of yesterday in San Francisco and I got to see basically all of my favorite parts of the city: the giant Borders in Union ( Read more... )

I'm sure that some of you remember how I "sold" this year's NaNoWriMo novel in the livelongnmarry fandom auction to support gay marriage in California. I promised to write anenko a novel on whatever she wanted over the course of a year. During November, this turned into the "medieval fantasy cross-dressing farce" novel, which I'm sure I've explained to some of you ( Read more... )

1. Finish a second draft of The Printer’s Daughter (and find a better title ( Read more... )

There will be something more coherent than this when I *don't* have to run off to go tutor. But I just realized ( Read more... )

Well, this marks Year Four of not killing myself during November -- at least, not physically. Metaphysically, this is probably a different story ( Read more... )

What I really need right now is way more time than I have ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo's night of writing dangerously was fantastic, and lots of fun, although I basically didn't write very much there at all. It had a very different feel to it this year than last year...and I can never speak this aloud to people I work with, but I think I had a better time at last year's. Then again, this year I'm not as in love with my ( Read more... )