This is one of those random "hey, I have to tell somebody this cool THING" posts!  First, I dreamed last night of a great black dragon unfurling from the earth and taking flight to terrorize the city.  Today I found out from Facebook (of all places) that today marks the beginning of Chinese New Year: and this year is the Year of the Dragon!  Pretty ( Read more... )

Wow, 2012 already?  When did that happen?

With the new year comes resolutions.  Some will be made, some will be broken.  Who can say which is which?  For now, the year is a blank slate, all shiny with possibility!

My writing goals this year are pretty hefty:

- Finish editing Outcast, which is due to my publisher the end of this month for a July 2012 ( Read more... )

I'm always shocked by how infrequently I've been working on my writing these days, which is, in part, why I keep avoiding my livejournal.  That and massive quantities of overwhelm.

I've actually accomplished a lot in the past couple of months.  Some big changes in my personal life took place, which obviously puts a variety of plans and intentions on ( Read more... )

Well, hello there, little writing blog!  Did you miss me?  I know I missed you.

I have decreed that, henceforth unto the end of the semester, Fridays shall now be reserved for writing projects.  My goal is to complete, every Friday, at least 500 words of new writing on Chrono Mechanics and one chapter of editing on my YA novel Rat's Tale/ Thief of ( Read more... )

392 words today.  Yay!  I would have hit my goal of 500, but I got distracted.  Maybe later.

For now, off to writing group! :)

Total word count: 91,951

1010 words today on Chrono.  Woohoo!  If I could do that for 10 more days, I'd probably have this draft done.

But I won't, so let's not go there.

Only 4 1/2 handwritten pages of outline left to write, and the outline is pretty detailed.  I've given up guesstimating when this book will be done, but I'm always hopeful it will be done soon.  At least I ( Read more... )

619 words on Chrono Mechanics today.  If you want to get really technical about writing quotas, I wrote just under that on a blog comment over at Heroines of Fantasy and another 300 on an article for the Inner Circle Corona newsletter.  I also wrote an email to Governor Jerry Brown.  Therefore, I'm going to pat myself on the back for a productive ( Read more... )

No formal word count to add today, but I did finish plotting Chrono through to the end. Small victory! Now that I know how it's all going to play out I think it will be easier to finish- as long as I can carve out some time to write!

I've been rather more quiet about this than I should have, but I am privileged to be one of the "Three With Eyes that See" over at the new Heroines of Fantasy blog, and my first post, "Why Heroines: Defining the Heroine in Epic Fantasy" is up now!  In it I mention the common stereotypes of women in fantasy and discuss what qualities would help ( Read more... )

Hey, I made some words today for the first time in forever!  It definitely feels good to be writing again, although it's becoming very hard to fit it into my schedule now that school's started ( Read more... )