One for the Road
My life is one big loop of working writing and novel writing. I’m not complaining, mind, it’s just that it means I’m far more prone to lose track of time these days.
Letting Go
One of the hardest parts about writing professionally; that is, writing in the corporate world, is letting go of things you know you could do better if you just had more time. Deadlines come hard and fast. You often don’t have enough information to work with (and sometimes you’re just making up filler with no
Why Am I So Tired?
Things are good-crazy, but that means there’s a lot of work to do, and man, sometimes it makes my brain hurt.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
I’ve been working on some requested edits for God’s War this week. Revising can be a hell of a lot of fun when you get feedback of the “I’d like more of this! and this! and this!!” variety. Not so fun when you get the “I’m not sure why this doesn’t work, but could you
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Hurdles
Why is it I find it so difficult to write happy family scenes? I mean, I actually had quite a wonderful, happy childhood. It’s not like I don’t have material to draw from. I think I just don’t find happy childhood scenes all that interesting.
Novel Gazing
Tim’s got a post up where he looks at the first lines of his novels, and it got me curious at to what all of mine looked like. No doubt there’s a hell of a lot of other huge differences between where I was when I wrote my first book and where I am now,
Help La Gringa Pay Rent!
La Gringa is a hardworking woman in the SF/F publishing industry who’s been through a disastrous run of bad luck at various SF/F publishing houses and has been laid off and then laid off again for well over a year. Money’s been running out for ages, she also has various medical bills to pay, and
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In Which the Protagonist is Offered a Writing Job
For serious, yo. Writing up that mock business proposal paid off. I’ve been tentatively offered a temp-to-possible-hire position in downtown Dayton for what I’ll refer to here as a financial services firm (the universe must be trying to tell me something…). Writing jobs of any sort are like fucking gold, even if, as with this
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Connage
I love me a good Wiscon, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve never stayed Thursday-Tuesday before, and yes, it’s Sunday night and I’m incredibly burned out. It takes a lot of effort to get ready for those things. After I blew through the first couple days of “I love all these people! It’s so great