Topped 50,000 words today. Interesting things have happened. A bit more information about who did what to whom when, which will lead directly into who’s doing what to whom now, and who wants to do what to whom in the future. Some bad guys have been foiled by some good guys. It’s become obvious that Read More…
Tag: life beyond writing
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…
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…
Numbers rolling on…
New Book topped 20,000 words today, a very good sign. It might have been another thousand words along, since I had a burst early in the week, but Thursday was a slack day in which various other problems intruded. Glad of the extra words in hand, I didn’t push today beyond what I needed to Read More…
Important Notice
In spite of a post on an entertainment website about Gordon Lightfoot, no, I was not his second wife. I’ve been married since 1969 to the same man, who is not (and, no disrespect to Mr. Lightfoot, I’m glad of that) Gordon Lightfoot. Most of you would have figured that out yourselves, if you’d ever Read More…
Rewrite in…
Earlier this week I sent back the latest rewrite…and boy, should you be celebrating the fact that Editor held my feet to the fire and made me work the monster over again. It’s MUCH better now. (Editor may not think it’s enough better, as is Editor’s prerogative, but it’s definitely better.) Among other things, while Read More…
“Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition…”
Or hitting a wall across the road when the road appeared to be wide open except for that very distant wall. But I have. It’s not a fatal crash, and not a fatal wall, but it sure was a wake-up call. It had actually been there all along, but what I saw (thought I saw) Read More…
Done
Well, probably. Sortakinda done. At 1:30 this afternoon, I made my final staggering plunge through the muck and mire to the finish line, having untangled various tangles and discovered yet more typos. I’d been up until 2:30 am Friday morning (NOT, mutter mutter, going out to photograph peak bluebonnets and plains nipple cactus, mutter mutter) Read More…
Writer Self-Care, Part One
A recent discussion online on self-care for scientists in academia (@realscientists and #AcademicSelfCare on Twitter) prompted this post. Writers–that is, fiction and nonfiction freelance writers–often have mental/emotional/physical problems that can be helped–if not entirely prevented or cured–by some judicious self-care. But we can forget that when deadlines are knocking on the door (loudly) or the Read More…
In New York City April 1?
My publisher, Penguin Random House, has chosen The Speed of Dark as one of their books to highlight for National Autism Awareness Day, April 1, 2016, in conjunction with Autism Speak’s Light It Up Blue. It will be on display at their headquarters, 1745 Broadway, with some copies to give away. And of course Read More…