Being away from the text for 10+ days let me look at it “clean” (more or less) and I needed to remind myself of details, so I spent most of the day’s work yesterday reading and editing the first 200 pages. That lopped over into today, as well. This isn’t anything like a final edit, Read More…
Author: Elizabeth
Writer, photographer, married, mother. Also native plants, wildlife, music, horses, curiosity unlimited, time limited. Pronouns she, her
Vanishment
Tomorrow’s my last day to prep for the trip to WorldCon, so I will be staying offline and won’t be back here (I don’t think, anyway) for more than a week. So don’t worry. As long as the train doesn’t fall off a track into a river, or some idiot like the one in Fort Read More…
WorldCon Schedule
This is my Final Schedule for the 2016 WorldCon in Kansas City. Y’all come! As I have discovered previously that this theme (which I don’t have time to change anytime soon) is quite rigid about its cuts, and doesn’t observe line breaks above the cut, I’m chatting here so that maybe, just maybe, I can Read More…
Universes Interlude
“It doesn’t really look like you.” Teague, a tall, lanky fellow with yellowish brown-freckled skin and dubious colored eyes, is holding the cover art for the latest Vatta book. “Your official visa image doesn’t look much like you,” Ky says. She looks tired. “They got the bone structure right,” Rafe says. “It’s just the color–” Read More…
Cold Welcome Has Cover!
First look at the cover for Cold Welcome. I think it looks good and cold, all right. Unfortunately, it turns out this theme will not display the image at the top of the post–in fact won’t display it at all unless I write enough text to make it say “Read More.” Never mind: the cover Read More…
Wildlife Rescue (small)
I was walking back to the house today when I heard a sort of scuffling noise that seemed to be coming from the carport. It didn’t sound like an ordinary cat-noise, but I thought one of the idiot younglings might have gotten up in the engine compartment and then stuck there. Or even (not a Read More…
Copy Edits, Take 2
For me, working on copy edits means having all the following at hand (or just down the hall): dictionary, Chicago Manual of Style, directions and notes from publisher (I manage to screw up at least once anyway, but I try not to), the mechanical pencil (because it stays sharp) and a spare, and of course Read More…
Copy Edit Time
So. Copy Edits for Cold Welcome arrived Friday afternoon, and this morning I cleared off half the kitchen table and laid out my work space. Stack of unread pages. Place to put pages read. Dictionary. My Sekrit Decoder ring to details in the book. Removed Ego and put it in the fridge freezer (oh, come Read More…
Who Knew…
…that visa problems might still exist in the far future worlds science fiction writers write about? Surely future political entities will have better solutions than we have…won’t they? (Plot Daemon says “Bwah-ha-hah-hah-hah-haaaaa….”) And rules about who is really a citizen…and problems with missing paperwork…and what happens if you’re deported from your own planet and you Read More…
Why Does It Slow Down? (Tech Post)
One reason many people who start out wanting to write don’t go on with it is that they have lots of ideas, start writing and then…the story slows down. Or actually stops. They don’t know why. They don’t know that this is normal for many writers. They sure don’t know what to do about it. Read More…