I’m heading for the airport in about half an hour, so in case I don’t get the chance, remember that my story The Women of Our Occupation is going to be available for purchase on May 29th in the Year’s Best SF 12 collection – Buy it and ask me to sign it! That would […]
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I’ll just need to write a lot on the plane…
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I AM DONE WITH GW EDITS FOREVER. DONE I TELL YOU. FUCKING DONE. FINISHED all line edits today. FINISHED. NO, REALLY. I WILL NOT do any more edits on this book until or unless asked to do so by an editor or agent. IT IS IN THE FUCKING BAG. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS
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
“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?
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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
Mmmmm Query Letters Read More »
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
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… 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
Today’s Song, Stuck on Repeat Read More »
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