Thursday, November 30, 2006
NYC Skyline at Night 009 Originally uploaded by Livia Llewellyn. For the past three days, I’ve been stuck in a hotel in Jersey City, sitting at the “information” desk for my company as I directed people to meeting rooms. Mostly I stared at the walls. I also spent some time working out a new synopsis [...]
Sunday, November 26, 2006
For those of you who have Livejournal accounts, I set up a syndicated feed that you can view on lj. One word of caution – if you add it, the first thing it’ll do is put a whole bunch of posts into your friends view. So you might want to add it last thing at [...]
Friday, November 24, 2006
For the past week, I’ve been working on some character background for the protagonist of my novel. The more I wrote, the more I realized that what I was creating wasn’t just a list of details, but an actual story. Last night I took what I had, dumped it into a single word document, then [...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
So, early this morning I finally sent off “The Unattainable”. As usual, I had a last minute surge of panic: did I attach the story, or attach a grocery list? is my cover letter too groveling and pathetic, or just pathetic enough? how many typos did I miss? what if my story sucks? OMG MY [...]
Friday, November 10, 2006
I cut two thousand words out of the story last night. It didn’t hurt as much as I thought. It didn’t hurt at all, actually – it was quite liberating. Now, finally, it’s the story I wanted it to be. I’ve come to realize that you can’t truly call yourself a writer if you write. [...]
Thursday, November 9, 2006
I sent out “The Unattainable” to two beta readers, and received great feedback from one already. Although I’m still cringing over all the spelling/grammatical mistakes and clunky word and sentence choices (because there’s always more than I think there’ll be), there was confirmation that such things as “plot” and “character” are working (although there are [...]
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The story is now 8800 words – I swear, I’ll spend the next seven days agonizing over what words to cut. It’s not about “killing my darlings”. With me, it’s about repetition. I tend to say something, then repeat it in a smarty-pants “poetic” image. It’s quite annoying, to say the least. However, my erotica [...]
For the first time since I started this blog (which I call The Blog That Nobody Reads), I’m getting – readers. Well, at least I’m getting people passing by. And I have a feeling they want to know about my writing that’s set in Tacoma. Well, I have a list of upcoming projects, and I [...]
Saturday, November 4, 2006
I finished the new version of my “brokeback erotica” story. It clocks in at a little over 10,000 words. Whoops. I can whittle it down to the 8,000 word limit, but I’m pretty certain that the length has done me in. There’s less than two weeks before the deadline, which means that most of the [...]
Because Bitter is Better! Ok, it’s not. Shut up, already!