For those of you who were asking for it: I've gone through the two worst-culprit sections of Howling and briefly annotated (most) of JD's references with the same tooltip-title trick I used for the translations: the annotated May and June. (Do read the full story first, though ( Read more... )

I hate editing.

That is all.

If I removed all instances of the word 'fuck' and its variants from this story, it would probably be about two thousand words shorter.

(Progress report: three and a half out of five sections rewritten, for a total of 56,000 words so far, and this is where we really start diverging from the first draft...)

Moved to Dreamwidth

WE FOUND THE ELEPHANT.

(If you're wondering wtf I'm on about: IG and I were elephant hunting.)

One major elephant, one minor elephant, and the two of them are totally connected and NOW I KNOW.

....and it will take a ridiculous amount of fixing. BUT HEY. WE FOUND THE ELEPHANT. ivorygates is brilliant.

I've had a couple of people in the past few weeks ask me if they know of a good place to go for beta help, and I'm so overextended right now, writing-wise, that I just can't in good conscience offer to help. There are a lot of you, though, and I know many of you are really good betas (and enjoy it!) so ... time to be a LiveJournal dating service ( Read more... )

So as mentioned, ivorygates and I are co-enabling right now on a crossover between my Eurydiceverse and her universe of "Waterloo Bridge", and due to various story pressures, etc, the whole thing gets to be in E'verse Daniel's point of view. While she has a number of very smart things to say about the process of writing a character that challenging, which ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention the creepy thing that happened to me on Monday ( Read more... )

So, I've been tossing around five or six different ideas for a novel pitch, since I have determined that 2007 is going to be the Year of the Professional Sale and my attempt to do something short-storyish met with laughable failure. (I am a novelist. Seriously. Ten thousand words is a warmup, not a short story.) There's the Cop Procedural series, ( Read more... )

Five fucking hours to write 1,100 words ( Read more... )