Readjusting to working behind the counter after a weekend of running around and speaking on panels is turning out to be a bit of a project. I’ve gone from being on a schedule of talk-about-writing, go write, talk-some-more-about-writing, go-write-some-more to a schedule of work, squeeze-in-some-writing, make dinner, run-to-karate, stay late for kobudo, do it all [...]

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Live Novel Project

When I’m writing, I back everything up off my computer. Sometimes this is to an external hard drive, and sometimes this is to an email address that I can access anywhere. I think that, instead of backing up, I’ll be posting my progress on Scribd. Because there has been a little interest in the process [...]

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Question for the Audience

I was looking for con pics and discovered I still have an old Scribd account set up. I was thinking, as I’ve had some interesting commentary on the posts that show my work from conception to completion, that I might use it as a dumping ground, so readers who are interested can see the making [...]

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WIP-ery

Could not sleep last night. Probably a hideous combination of caffeine and excitement. So I lay in bed and watching Most Haunted, and then lay in bed and really couldn’t sleep.
I forgot about the dinner last night, and wrote my way through the dance, so I was, once again, totally unsocial. But I was unsocial [...]

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How Text Changes

From first draft:
Snow swirled around the feet of the horses and obscured the edges of the road. Needled boughs groaned and trees became white parabolas among the drifts.
On one side of the road the drifts had piled high against the trees. On the other side, the balsams groaned and shuddered and shed [...]

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On Progress, or Lack Thereof

I decided yesterday afternoon, at the tail end of a lovely weekend, that pressuring myself to write something is unhelpful. This is my sneaky way of getting my obtuse brain to think I’m going to just turn down the heat and walk away, but in reality, I’m just changing strategy. Unfortunately for me, my brain, [...]

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Hurray!

The galley is here! This means more work but fun work, the best kind of work, the sort of work that involves me sitting around with a cup of coffee reading a story I know I like. Yessss.

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Q and A

My girlfriend wants to be a writer, and usually she writes a lot, but lately she’s stuck. She’s afraid to do anything in case it gets worse. Has this ever happened to you?
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Work

Field Guide, as it turns out, doesn’t work as a single book. I reread it recently and realized it’s actually two books twinned. This has led me to the strange situation I’m currently in, where I want to pitch a trilogy to my editor, but the first book has all ready been accepted, edited and [...]

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May to October

I keep track of everything in my journals. Here are the bulk of the entries about Handbook, from genesis to sale. Just a warning, these are uncensored, repetitive and sweary, because in my journal I’m only writing for myself.
May 9 08, “I need to write something. Why aren’t I writing?”
May 18 08, “Obviously I’m heading [...]

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