Nothing like the feeling of a warm manuscript across my knees, fresh from my printer. Or five.

The submissions for TNEO were posted today. I've got five novel chunks of about 15,000 words each to read and critique. I'm excited to get started! Needless to say, I won't be posting anything about my reading here. But if I don't post for a while, ( Read more... )

Whew! I spent much of the morning working on a lecture I'm giving tomorrow in Stephan's class about The Willow Maiden ballet and my writing process.

Then, I spent most of the afternoon editing chapter four of my novel, which is the last of the four chapters for my first TNEO submission. It's 68 pages and about 15,900 words (a little over, but the ( Read more... )

My computer is ordered and on its way. Yes, I sprang for the Mac Pro. (*Cry* *whine* my poor bank account!) My check is sent off for TNEO this year. My writers' group critiqued my novel chapter 4, which is the last of the 15,000 word chunk I've got to submit for TNEO by April 12 for the extended novel group.

That's all, folks.

Well, I got on Facebook at the urging of some folks. One of the first things that happens upon signing up and putting in your school information is a page showing people who graduated the same year that you can add to your friends list. "Great," I thought, "I can catch up with some of those old friends from high school, college, and grad school ( Read more... )

I'm officially going to TNEO now that I've verified I can get a plane ticket for a decent price. I'd be crazy not to go, since I need a huge kick in the pants to make progress on the novel rewrite/edits.

I just finished the second volume of The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M. Valente. Wow! I've been enjoying the books immensely, but was afraid ( Read more... )

Whew! I had an amazing time, learned a lot, got some great feedback, and even got some writing done in the process. And got to hang out with some really cool people and wonderful writers, including maggiedr and pantlessjohnny! Lots of other wonderful folks who aren't on lj or I don't know your user names. Because I'm too lazy to reinvent the wheel, the following is ( Read more... )

I'm very excited to be going off to TNEO later today. I've got all my crits done except for two novel synopses that I've read and jotted a few notes on but haven't gotten to the written critiques yet. I also still need some more work on my lecture, but as evidenced by how long I was able to blather about the book to my husband, I think I have ( Read more... )

In just a few days, I will be leaving for North Carolina for my sister's wedding. I'm excited and have been stuck on the Bach aria I'm going to be singing (never mind that the part I keep humming is the oboe part, not the soprano part ( Read more... )

I had a good writing day yesterday and finally wrote another draft of the third (and final) chapter of my novelette, For the Love of Trees. I still want to do another round of polishing before I send it off to TNEO, but I think I've got most of what I need in there. I was tempted to add even more, reintroduce a minor character who would be able ( Read more... )

I'm going to Mythcon! I had started out with the assumption that I'd have to skip it this year because I was spending all my travel time and budget for my sister's wedding in North Carolina, then the week-long TNEO writing workshop, which gets done only a week before Mythcon ( Read more... )