I had two opportunities to talk about writing today with writers, which is really weird and unusual and lovely and should happen more often. Both of these too-brief conversations were held before the beginning of a class, and inevitably there were other (non-writer) people listening. In my Clarissa seminar the guy who sits across from me noticed my ( Read more... )

I’m rather annoyingly bored.

One would think that something like this would be nigh on impossible, considering that I’m currently sitting in London, listening to cars going by and what I think is thunder out of the open window.  Maybe bored isn’t quite the right word.  But I feel like this time around, I haven’t been nearly as productive as before. ( Read more... )

I just re-learned that I'm a good writer, in the sort of way that I only get to re-learn once a year: I began to read through the November novel.

And guess what?  It's exceedingly less sucky than last year's!  I may be making actual, distinct progress!  Honestly, I've laughed at my own writing.  I've remembered the way I felt when I was writing it, ( Read more... )

Way too many things to do. Finished the novel for NaNoWriMo...but when I say "finished," all I really mean is that I've met my goal for the wordcount. It's 60,102 words long, but in terms of plot it's no where near to being done (because a whole lot of the writing is pointless filler that will be deleted in a final version ( Read more... )

Today, I am thankful for many things, but most particularly Jane Eyre, my cousin Carissa, my laptop, and National Novel Writing Month (though not quite in that order ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm writing this for me to understand how I want the next part of my story to go down, as they say. Kes is onboard a shuttle meant to take her to her friend who's already up at college. But the shuttle's going to get taken over by "space pirates." My problem? I don't know why these people are hijacking a silly little insystem shuttle ( Read more... )

So nanowrimo's off to a very good start. I decided this year to shoot for 60k instead of 50k because I did 50k last year and I don't think this is all very fun unless there's a challenge. That said, I'm well on my way to meeting the goal of 60k -- I'm actually a bit over how far I need to be right now, because yesterday I went to Borders and sat ( Read more... )

With November creeping ever closer every day, I still need a little help with my story -- but it's help that you can give! Mostly, I have a few things that still need names and descriptions. To be precise, three alien species of mine are missing data, and I need to know the names of the colleges Kes applies to.

The AliensFeel free to fill in ( Read more... )

Well, I managed to get two of the three resolutions for Tustin done. I actually found this awesome old resolution from a different conference 2 years ago on one of the same topics, and I ended up just using it as my resolution -- I'd totally forgotten I had it! And here I thought I'd have to go and do real research. I still have to spend some ( Read more... )

So I've discovered, among other things, the soundtrack to my novel for this November ( Read more... )