This was just an experiment I did as a warm-up. (Soon you are going to get to see some illustrations, cross my heart, but I’m having technical difficulties so you’re stuck with warm-ups for now.) For anyone curious about what it was I actually did: I sketched my own dumb face chewing on a paintbrush, [...]
I know no one probably cares how I write novels right now, since most of you have never seen one and these first-draft manuscripts I claim I have might as well be a crowd of tooth fairies I also say I have trapped in the attic. But some day, when I publish one and everyone [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Sale: On Sunday, the story I wrote for my sixth week at Clarion West was accepted for publication at Lightspeed Magazine. HOORAY! I love this story, currently titled “Breathless in the Deep,” because I can spot much of what I learned at the workshop–even though I decided that last week not to “try,” but instead [...]
Friday, November 16, 2012
One of the best parts about NaNoWriMo: hanging out with and meeting other people who want to write a novel in a month. I hang out with “real” writers all the time, people who consistently finish and often publish their work. And they’re different. The NaNoWriMo crowd has those people, of course (hi! me!) but [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
They’ve been in our house less than twelve hours, so they’re still shy–especially with how friendly my other pets are. One of my cats just crawled up onto my lap to snuggle me and ignored them. They were understandably terrified, but I’m sure eventually they’ll realize she’s even stupider and tamer than they are. Briar [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2012
I got pretty busy, so I don’t have much of my outline done yet on paper, but I have almost two weeks left and a pretty solid skeleton of the story in my head, so I’m not too worried. Here are the first five scenes/chapters, with spoilers! To make it more amusing (to me anyway–I’m [...]
I can’t play nice like the other kids, so I changed the questions about my work-in-progress for this mini-interview when I got tagged by buddy and fellow VP alum Nicky Drayden. Luckily for you, it’s not November, so you won’t have to hear about the fancy locks + monsters + run-down mansion story again. Instead, [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2012
NaNoWriMo excitement blathering post #2! OH THE HUMANITY. Sit down and pretend to read about my novel that doesn’t exist yet, and I will reward you with pretty scribblies. Making up the monsters has been lots of fun, but making up the other dangers that beset my adventuring party is even more fun. I have [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Shut up, I’m excited. And instead of making you hear about it every day for the whole month, I have devised a clever system so you will only hear about it five times. I am a magnanimous blogger who understands that you don’t actually care about my silly project, which is basically a composite [...]
Thursday, September 20, 2012
In some ways, Clarion West changed the way I was beginning doodles and drawings. I’m not sure I’m prepared to elaborate quite yet; I’m still working on how to describe the association I’m making between two entirely different craft techniques. The unrefined, bumbling version is this: Ideally in my fiction I will suggest how the [...]
