Saturday, December 30, 2006
So, I have a tentative list of what I want to write next year. After some futzing with the order, I think what follows is largely chronological.Novellas During the first quarter of ’07, I plan on doing quite a bit of research on Tacoma in the 1800′s, mining and industry companies, and the “culture” of [...]
Friday, December 29, 2006
Written: Of nine projects I wrote this year, four will have to be rewritten – that leaves five finished projects. All five of those stories have been submitted to markets, with two already accepted for publication. What’s interesting to note is that pre-Clarion, I was writing larger projects, but ones that ultimately were too flawed [...]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
When I last posted, I was almost to the breaking point over my novella, and writing in general. After a year where I pretty much rearranged everything in my life to accomodate writing, and after almost three solid years of it with no significant breaks, I was burned out. I thought that diving into a [...]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Every now and then I have to take a complete break not only from blogging, but from all writing in general. This is one of those times. This entire year has revolved around writing – reading about writing, blogging about writing, attending readings, going to Clarion, and the actual act of writing. Enough already. I [...]
Saturday, December 9, 2006
I’ve written about 5000 words of my novella. I’ve sneezed about 243,357,947,221,054 times. Why oh why can I not be as productive as my cold?
This afternoon, iTunes on my smaller laptop decided to crap out, and reset itself to an older version, complete with an older library. I lost several hundred dollars worth of music and tv shows I’d downloaded since the end of August. That alone would be annoying enough, except that now when I look at my [...]