My creative life is incredibly strange.

I may yet become the first person to fanfiction myself. I have two books now where The Princess gets abducted. Sargon has, multiple times, requested an account of what happened to the incomparable Velah Argus during her time in the four hands of the dastardly Thoros Thane, and will, once he reads this next ( Read more... )

Here we are at the beginning of Week Four. I feel like I should say something pithy.

Lucky you all, I am a writer, so I have two pithy things to say ( Read more... )

You know the urge to write smut is slowly taking over your brain when you repeatedly type "insex" instead of "insects ( Read more... )

Despite a long and shitty weekend where I got very little actually accomplished, I still managed to break 35,000 words. I'm ahead of the game, if not as far ahead as I had hoped ( Read more... )

Huge, glaring logic flaw, meet novel ( Read more... )

I wrote 4,000 words yesterday. And another 3,000 in the early part of today. And my hand hurts like Hell ( Read more... )

Procrastination strikes!

Wow. Okay, one of my favorite things ever is prehistoric mammals. So, while doing some vaguely NaNo-related research today, I ran across a site that sells resin models of the saber- and dirk-toothed cats, as well as a bunch of other prehistoric mammals. How cool is this?

Here is the classic saber-tooth, Smilodon ( Read more... )

Aren't characters fun ( Read more... )

I realize it's a very common one, but context is everything.

My most hilarious typo yet:

"The princess was wearing different clothes, had patently bathed and slept -- where? -- and was now clad rather outlandishly. Jackson had thought, after a year among people who considered loincloths and a half-dozen leather straps to be proper pubic attire, ( Read more... )

I've written consecutive novels set in the same world, and I've written pieces featuring a few of the same characters, or their descendants, but I have never written a true sequelAnd I'm discovering that it's really not as easy as it appears ( Read more... )