On a whim I downloaded the sample chapter for Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, which is actually a book about writing. And I am howling through the whole thing. (For example, talking about writing bad first drafts, she talks about writers she has known “Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one […]
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I am easily distracted by shiny objects. Or projects. Actually, they don’t have to be that shiny. Actually, they don’t even have be sane. Which is why, in the middle of working on a Perfectly Good Story With Potential That People Like, Goddamnit, my brain said “Hey! I want to write a paranormal romance!” “No,” […]
Well, NaNoFiMo has claimed another victim—I had a mad 3500 word jag today, and knocked off Dreambreath. Now I am having post-partum book blues. I was able to stave them off on Bread Wizard because I had to immediately go to Dreambreath, but now they’re BOTH done, and all I have to work on is […]
The worst part about being self-employed is that when you’re waiting for other people to get back to you, you start to feel…unemployed. Yes. I have done all my writing for the day. I am totally and completely on track for everything, if not way ahead of schedule, I have written 2200 words today, I […]
A chunk from NaNoFiMo. This definitely won’t get finished this month, but at least I should pack a bit more meat on its bones… It was a small stream. It had never been dragged with iron chains or even shackled with a footbridge. It lay across her path, glinting in the light that slipped […]
I got up this morning feeling ambitious. No art due today! Glorious day to go to the cafe and get the bottomless cup of coffee and maybe a taco or something! Gonna go work on Bread Wizard and try to get two thousand words done! (I know, I know, two thousand words is not all […]
Well, squids and squidlets, it’s nearly November, and that means another Nanowrimo is upon us. As y’all may recall from past years, I am a fan of Nanowrimo. There are plenty of people who will tell you that what it produces is a bunch of terrible dreadful awful manuscripts hacked together by non-writers who think […]
I am honestly not interested enough in the whole story to sustain a retelling of any length, but here’s a short…thingy…..since…well…on my mind, obviously. And if you leave me alone with a story long enough, I start to wonder what everybody eats. It doesn’t end in a satisfactory fashion, but this sort of thing wouldn’t. […]
It’s the 100th anniversary of the publication of Peter Pan, or something like it, and I spent an hour this morning listening to panelists on NPR sing its praises. I would like to take a moment now to say that I hated Peter Pan as a child. Still am not a big fan, honestly. I […]
The title popped up in a discussion of House of Leaves, so I wound up reading The Red Tree last night, pretty much in one go. That should tell you right there that it’s a page turner, and well-worth the read—the writing is elegant and cruel and it was genuinely very scary, go forth, read, […]