Eighteen chapters into the second Ravenstone book, and where we are in the school year is only early November 2018. But I just checked, and in the first book I didn't hit December 2017 until chapter 18, so it's not much worse than the first book ( Read more... )

Got some writing done today. I have a plan for the current chapter, which helps. Only got 3 pages done, but this was after HOURS of the proverbial banging my head against a wall.

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I'm writing a scene in book 2 that takes place in the part of the library where they put all the conspiracy theory stuff and the science that isn't accepted by the establishment because it's done by amateurs rather than people who spent thousands of dollars to become part of the academic elite ( Read more... )

Gods help my sleep and my sanity, but I have discovered that DuoLingo does Navajo! It doesn't pronounce anything in Navajo, and I've had to figure the grammar out without any actual lessons, but by gods I've learned more in the last several hours than I did in the year prior to that ( Read more... )

Chooli is a gamer. So now I'm trying to work out how team mode on an online multiplayer video game like Call of Duty or Splatoon would work for deaf characters, if at all. The characters in question prefer to communicate with ASL and are part of the Deaf community. But ASL as a language uses hands... which would be busy with the controller. And of ( Read more... )

Asking for my Ravenstone story: Do any of you know when Portland, Oregon does trick or treating? I know there's at least one parent on my friendslist who should be able to tell me ( Read more... )

I am currently looking up stats on the weight of an elephant's skeleton and skin, and the reason for this is funny: trying to figure out how much of a Ravenstone-verse unicorn's body would be meat, as unicorns there are roughly the size of African elephants. Why? I want to know how much of a unicorn would be edible. LOL ( Read more... )

For the Ravenstone series, I've taken to doing something I hadn't really done before, and saving scenes that I've cut out of the story during one edit or another. I didn't start on this right away in the first one, so there's some parts that are gone forever, but there was enough editing in the first book that I have a "cut file" of 24 pages for ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wrote 2 1/2 pages. Today I wrote 3 pages. Still in the middle of the scene I started, having had to stop mid-dialogue twice now. It is at least still progress, but slow progress. UGH ( Read more... )

Being a writer of science fiction and fantasy sure brings up a lot of fucking bizarre questions for me. Here's the latest one: what's the average volume of a twelve year old girl in the US? No, not weight - volume.Context: I have a character, named Acorn, who is a wood nymph. She looks like a 12 year old girl, more or less. She IS a 12 year old ( Read more... )