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September recap

| October 2, 2012

Huh, September ended when I wasn’t looking! So here’s the recap, a few days late! By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 4 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 3 Resubmissions: 2 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 3 Numbers are a bit down this month because […]

July recap

| July 31, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 3 Resubmissions: 3 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 Not much action on this front, really. I haven’t finished a new short story since February, so it’s pretty much just been a […]

Good press!

| January 3, 2012

I’ve mentioned my short story, “The Recondite Riddle of the Rose Rogue,” more than a few times. It was the first fiction that I wrote that was published, and now it’s mentioned (glowingly!) in a review that was posted to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website! My NaNo project was another Marsh sisters story, and I think […]

NaNo Day… um, what day is it?

| November 29, 2011

So first, I realized that I didn’t want to write my vampire novel. Okay, that’s fixable. Then, I cobbled together an outline for my YA steampunk novel, and it looked awesome. But then I started writing. And I was writing about 1,000 word chapters, because that’s what felt right. But when you only have 25 […]

NaNo Day 1

| November 1, 2011

So I started out at the midnight write-in last night working on a sort of urban fantasy/horror novel involving vampires. I got about 1,300 words done, and called it a night. In the course of that, I switched from third person to first person, because the words just weren’t coming out in third person. Then […]

Pacing Lessons from Hollywood

| October 30, 2011

The hubbie is off at World Fantasy Con, which means I’ve learned a couple of things. 1) Cats do not like it when you try to stick stuff in their mouth. 2) It’s hard to cook for one person. 3) Movies are great for learning how to structure the pacing a novel. I say this […]

Progress Report

| October 5, 2011

Well, I haven’t been quite as productive as I may have dreamed I could be, but I have made some progress on my stories. The untitled fantasy story is still untitled, but it’s nearing completion. I have one scene to write (something that came up in review), and I need to add a bit of […]

What I’m working on

| September 9, 2011

I’m posting this up for the world to see, in the hopes that it will help me to stay on target. Title pending (fantasy with a slight tinge of horror): About 1,400 words in. I’ve tentatively outlined out what the remaining scenes need to be, and now I just have to write them. I’m hoping […]

Too many ideas, not enough time

| March 3, 2011

I woke up this morning from a dream about vampires, and I realized by the time I got to work (and was still mulling over the details) that this dream could form the basis of a novel/setting. Because what I really needed to do was go and get myself worked up over writing a vampire […]