Fucking Plot
Fucking plot.
And So
If I declare myself and business and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $1221. If I don’t declare myself a busines and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $421. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept all of my con reciepts. EDIT: Final Federal taxes owed: $553 Yeah, right! I …
What Keeps Me Up At Night
“God’s War is a 97,000 word fantasy novel of faith, blood, betrayal and submission played out in the contaminated deserts of Nasheen, a matriarchal state engaged in a centuries-old holy war with polygamous Chenja.” Hm, no, that’s not right. I typed: Polygamous. No, that means multiple partners of either sex. What’s more than one wife? …
Mmmmm Query Letters
The only thing I hate drafting more than query letters are synopses. That’s going to be next. And I just printed out GW AGAIN so I can go through ANOTHER round of line edits. I hacked and combined several chapters during the last pass, and I need to make sure those run smoothly. I’ve also …
Why Positive Feedback Matters
In general, I’m a fan of brutal critiques. I don’t need anybody pussy-footing around my ego. If I’ve written a shit story, I need to know it was a shit story. The reverse of that, however, is that if I’ve written a good story, I need to know it was a good story. This may …
Today’s Song, Stuck on Repeat
… while I finish the third round of GW line edits. Line edits are the worst part of the whole process for me. The big revision stuff, that’s fun. The actual writing, the revising while writing, the outlining, etc. Fine, fine. The line edits? The round after round of line edits? Pure torture. A Perfect …
Solace
When I’m feeling really down about my work, I go to the bookstore downtown or down the street and I stand in front of the SF/F section. Then I open books at random and read the first few lines, the first paragraph. 98% of the time, it makes me feel a lot better. The rest …
Campbell Award Eligibility
Well, it looks like I’m still eligible for the Campbell award for Best New SF/F writer (2nd year of eligibility) because of the screwy rules regarding when Strange Horizons became a pro market. For anyone interested in voting, here’s the list of eligible nominees. SO VOTE! No pressure. 🙂 As usual, I’m a pretty small …
Printing, Printing
Printing tDW today (finally, after a lot of false starts). Takes awhile to print 600 pages. Jenn and I are halfway through season 1 of Babylon 5. Good show. Not much more to report. Dinner tomorrow with James and Ysabeau. Inputting some God’s War line edits. My backporch garden continues to grow.