Livia Llewellyn

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I finally had something of a break-through today in terms of revising the sf story. I’ve learned that what works best for me in terms of solving problem threads/plots is to let the work sit for a while, and let my subconscious work on it. Well, the past couple of days of sickness did the [...]

Yesterday afternoon I met up with some NYC-area Clarionites (Robert Levy, Sean Manseau and Chris Cevasco to start an informal workshop/critique circle, after which most of us went on to the KGB reading – Delia Sherman read from her first novel Changling, and Ellen Kushner (whose novel Swordpoint is out) gave us a ½-hour radio-style [...]

I spent most of yesterday putting together my desk. It wasn’t fun – this isn’t a typical Ikea desk of a single light blonde wood panel held aloft with a few slender steel poles. I hammered together a very heavy (and “traditional” looking) dark wood desk, then managed to get it from an upside down [...]

I’m in the middle of rewriting the last story I wrote at Clarion – “The Four Hundred Thousand”. I’ve stopped using such words and phrases as “revise” or “touch up”, as they were nothing more than a pathetic attempt to fool myself into believing that the story didn’t need that much work. But in order [...]