It started out chilly this morning, but it's sunny and is going to warm up fast. I love days like this. :)

Anah and I have been busy bees!

On Sunday, our very first Amber Allure story, Driven to Distraction, was released. For those of you who liked Pit Road and/or Renovations, this might be right up your alley. A white mechanic and a black ( Read more... )

Day Two of school being back in session, and we're just starting to settle into a routine around here. I've gotten a good bit of writing work done already this morning, so I'm pretty proud of myself. Especially since it's absolutely frigid outside and this coffeeshop has taken that as a sign to... crank up the A/C ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of school around here, which means I'm settling into my new routine now. I pretty much took the whole summer off blogging here, because I was so focused on other things, but I'm planning to incorporate blogging into my weekly routine from here on out ( Read more... )

My partner was playing Bioshock recently, the original one. Not the sequel. We haven't gotten that far yet. Despite the post-apocalyptic title, Bioshock is actually a art deco post-WW2 objectivist dystopia set in an Atlantis-like underwater city. With addiction and mind control and zombie-like things you kill with a wrench. Yeah, there's a lot ( Read more... )

Anah and I wrote Slow Bloom about two years ago, now. We've gotten better at this whole writing thing since then, but the themes Slow Bloom deals with haven't stopped being interesting to us. The year over which the story takes place is an important one in Ricky's life -- not just because he falls in love with Jack, but also because it's the year ( Read more... )

I spent last week visiting Anah Crow. What's a visit between Dianne and Anah like? A lot of work. I arrived Monday afternoon (after a rather long drive and a game of 20 Questions with the border guard) and, after lunch and some downtime, we got to work.

By 1am, we'd finished the final scene in Trammel (sequel to Tatterdemalion) and I went to ( Read more... )

Anah and I just finished up chapter 9 of Trammel a couple days ago and have a little bit of the last chapter left to go. Now, all these chapter markers are coming straight from the outline. They definitely don't reflect where the chapters will be once we're finished with edits, because 10,000 words is pretty long for a single chapter, but it helps ( Read more... )

You won't find any April Fool's jokes here. I'm not that funny. :)

I'm just settling in to the idea of a new month. Next week, I'll be visiting anahcrow. Other than that, it's just lots of dayjob and writing goals.

Right now, one of the big foci in my writing is setting details. The part of Trammel we're writing right now is set in Detroit, and in a ( Read more... )

Today is the last day of March. Where did the month go?

*looks at Trammel file*

Oh. There. Right.

So the lovely anahcrow did some checking and, since March 9, she and I have written more than 60,000 words on Trammel. It's not quite finished yet (we've just started the last scene in Chapter 8 of 10), but we're getting close. I'm at work today and ( Read more... )

...between everything else, today. I usually only write on Tuesdays and Thursdays (my days off from the day job), but my breaks at work today have been pretty productive all around. I've fit in a lot of errands, and still managed to write half a scene in One Real Thing, a novel-in-progress Anah and I set aside last fall to work on the edits for ( Read more... )