Hello, November, goodbye, November.

Aaaaand hello, December.

2013 where have you gone?

So last month I:

--got a half-Nanowrimo and then life happened. But what I did get accomplished needed doing and it feels good to have it done.

--got to go visit grav_ity and help her move to her fabulous new digs with fewer steps and more room ( Read more... )

This post is about a month overdue, but I didn't really feel like it was official until I finished a cursory review of the manuscript and passed it on to melyanna for her turn ( Read more... )

I find myself at an interesting crossroads in the 2013 writing journey.

First off, the good news. I am almost finished with The Superhero Thing. It's that magical stretch of every novel when you've worked through all of the plot difficulties and all that remains is to tie up the loose ends and cruise on through to the end. Lately, melyanna has taken to ( Read more... )

Since my last post about worldbuilding and invisible worlds I haven't done very much, but what little I have done has been gratifying:

• Made a "grab bag" list of minor characters (and their superpowers, if any) for the Superhero Thing
• Did some Restoration planning with laura_josephsen. (In person! Over lunch! It felt just like old times!) :-)
• Wrote 122 words for ( Read more... )

After my wildly successful word binge two weekends ago, I expected things to smooth and steady out a bit on the Superhero Thing.

They didn't.

I had one honeymoon day the following morning of my prescribed 700 words and since then have not written so much as a sigh (and I write a lot of sighing, especially in first drafts ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. More than 15,000 words, in fact. I did so well on Saturday that I set a new goal-- to be caught up by the end of the weekend. That ended up being 16,600 words, and I hated at least half of them, but I did itThat, really, is the story of my writer's existence, to grit my teeth and spit out the crap words. Because the crap words give ( Read more... )

This is my most bad-ass icon, which is the necessary vibe for in this post.

I'm still "behind" for the year on my word count goal. And I really, really want to be caught up again. NOT writing for the past two weeks certainly hasn't helped matters, but I'm at that point in the Superhero Thing where the excitement of writing something new has worn ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday I haven't updated in almost a month. Bad LJer! Ah well, such is life ( Read more... )

Last night I finished the second bullet point on my yearly authorial plan: Yet Another Edit of the Shakespeare thing is complete. The lovely laura_josephsen is going to read it for me this time. The reason I bring it up is because she hasn't read any iteration since the very first draft I spit out for Nanowrimo 2009 and I find this just hilarious. And also ( Read more... )

So after finishing Oathborn last Friday I hit my first "switch gears" moment of the year. Time to work on something else. I can't get too far behind, after all ( Read more... )