You see, in an effort to catch up, I have been effectively driveling out the first thing that comes to my mind. Unfortunately the first thing that comes to my mind in regards to vampires, is the same thing that seems to be coming to everyone else's mind about vampires these days ( Read more... )

I just whipped out seven lesson plans for tomorrow. Like that. Like it was a scene in my head waiting to fall out.

Which, I suppose makes sense, since it's a lesson I've been teaching since I started teaching there.

But still.

No, no 'but stills!' That's how it it is. It's how it always is. Just sit there in your suffering and suffer!The voices ( Read more... )

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Me: Happy Belly

I managed to come up with a number of ideas, and even capture several beginnings. I'm reluctant to go into "old territory" and just edit, or further write on any of the other stories because that would focus me on that and not one what could beI may need to go downstairs for a glass of wine, some crackers and a bit of cheese ( Read more... )

What is the plot? What is the story? Fantasy? Realistic? Folk? Science fiction? Hm. Is this the place for that story? Can I tell it in 50 pages or less? Should I leave that for my MG? Or will that be the next YA?

Like I don't have enough of them on my plate already. And should I go to see deliasherman and ellen_kushner tonight when I can see them up in Boston, semi- ( Read more... )

"To crank myself up [to write] I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee ( Read more... )

"[The writer] must be sufficiently excited to rouse himself to the task at hand, and not so excited he cannot sit down to it. He must have faith sufficient to impel and renew the work, yet not so much faith he fancies he is writing well when he is not. For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life ( Read more... )

THE WORDS!!!!

THEY ESCAPE ME!!!!

it should. not. be. this. hard.

I desperately wanted to resurrect Grandmother ( Read more... )