I spent my morning working through notes on the Red Witch. I’m super fortunate to find a grammar guru who loves my work. So, as she’s plowing through the Red Witch, I go along behind her, cleaning up my mess and clarifying what was explored during The Haven. And unlike my novellas, I’m not as […]
Got all of Uncommon Animals updated with all the new links. Today I switch over to Monsters of Pittsburgh, None of this is hard, per se. It’s just tedious. And it would a lot easier if whatever plant that triggered my allergies would stop flowering. I feel like my nose is about to explode off […]
As always I have so damned much going on, but I realized this morning, that I really needed to get some maintenance work done. For one thing, my podcast is about to launch. and I’m six weeks out from the start of the web comic. I need to start updating my 16 ebooks with the […]
I’ve a good blog week. I know because I’m obsessed with checking my stats. How many views, and where to they come from, etc, etc. This week, a few people read some older posts. Being obsessed, I read what they read. And I noticed that all winter I was worried about being behind on critiquing […]
Me and my projects. I have lots of them, but they’re all in the same universe. So even when I’m hanging out with Chelsea and Jackson, I’m still helping Marley and Edie. I switch between projects as need be, drafting, editing, and polishing in cycles. However, yesterday, I made a breakthrough on the sequel to […]
I have three kitties: Ollie, Bruce, and Clark. My own personal Justice League, protecting us from the evils of mice. And they are much like their fictional counterparts. Ollie is genial, sweet, even. Just don’t pick a fight. As any number of cats in our neighborhood learned before he became indoor kitty. Clark is super […]
Let’s get one thing straight from the outset: I don’t have a horse in this race. I never voted in the Hugos, never bought or read a story because it won one, and I’m not nominated. Hell, yesterday morning I would have been hard pressed to remember it was a literary award. But then a […]
I love the man, I do. He used to be my writing partner, before his job got to be too much work. He’s still my number resource when it comes to writing though, and my harshest critic. If I have a plot snarl, I yak at him until it goes away. Sometimes, he can help […]
Another day of critting, editing, cleaning, and being a stay at home mom. But I’ve got few minutes between folding seven loads of laundry and starting dinner to realize that holy crap, I really need to sit down and work on one of my characters. My novels always play with structure. The first one had overlapping chapters […]
It’s a strange thing, inspiration. And something most writers both love and hate to talk about. It’s fine when you have a great story. Or a funny one. It’s harder to explain the more odd occurrences. Like how laying on my stomach, listening to Naruto, somehow led to me finally coming up with a good backstory for […]
