This Must Be the Place

50,000 words, 29 days. A three-time winner is me: It's a horrible draft even by NaNo standards, but it'll sit there in the queue ...

Or something like that. NaNoWriMo is... well, not exactly cruising along this year. It's been something of a struggle, though I've n...

I have ten of them signed up to read. TEN. My takeaway? That the story sounds different enough to be interesting, and that the first sce...

It ended up being somewhat shorter than I had hoped, once I deleted all of the crap scenes I had moved to the end to figure out later. It is...

Revisions creep forward. FURY'S FLIGHT 82,000/100,000

I ought to use this space for accountability in writing as well as reading, now that I am finding my way back into the world of being produc...

I'm going to continue with the analysis I started in my previous post , using the same two books to explore how the hook evolves into th...

Last week I started writing a rant on the topic of writing advice I consider worse than useless: the do and don't lists on how to start ...

I don't often get up on a high horse and talk about writing topics, because really, who the hell cares what I think? But I've run ac...

As usual, I have no idea how this train of thought came about, but a few weeks ago I started thinking about the core characteristic of each ...

Music: The Mollys, This Is My Round I think there will be many a cup of tea drunk today. I made it to the office yesterday, but I didn...

Looking through Google Docs, which I use off and on, I came upon this three-year-old fragment. What's a blog for if not for publishing t...

"Ups and downs" meaning that I have started the uniquely masochistic process known as querying agents. I have sent out five querie...

Important step on that "real writer" business today--I sent off a query email to an agent. Still makes me feel sick, but it has to...

The office last week was tomb-like, a handful of us sprinkled through the big room, trading "sure is quiet" "yep, sure is...

I had a vague thought this morning that I hadn't blogged for a while. I had no idea it had been nearly two weeks! Time goes by awfully f...

Write. Exercise. Drink plenty of water. Cook and eat nutritious, homemade meals. Get eight hours of sleep. Earn a paycheck. Blog insig...

Yesterday I got a crit on the entire Book 1 draft. It was from someone whose work I had read a week or so back (we had agreed to do a swap);...

Having done almost nothing tangible on any novel during my 10 days off for the holidays, I have finally started work on Book 3 in something ...