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Tinkering with things that are done

| April 23, 2012

I finished up the edited draft of my novella on Saturday morning, and gave it to Jeremy to look at. In return, he gave me the second draft of his novella (which goes back to the publisher soon for final edits). Almost as soon as my draft was out of my hands, though, I had […]

Friday recap!

| April 20, 2012

This week, I scribbled about 650 words of a story on post-its and in E-mails to myself. It’s an interesting way of writing, especially because most of the words are small, discontiguous scenes. But they’re part of something larger that I’m working on, in bits and pieces. See, the story that I ended up writing […]

Friday recap

| April 6, 2012

This week has been pretty slow on the writing front. The hubbie went on vacation sick, and I came home sick. It’s not totally clear if this is actually a cold or just allergies, but either way, the effect is the same. Can’t brain, has the dumb. But I did get a bit of work […]

Jumping on the Kanbanpad wagon

| April 4, 2012

Last week, I spotted a tweet from Carrie Cuinn about Kanbanpad as an organizational tool. I’m a sucker for organizational tools, so I hopped on over to her blog post to read about it. She, in turn, had gotten her inspiration for using Kanbanpad for a writing organizational tool from John Remy. I liked what […]

March Recap

| March 27, 2012

As we’re off to the not-so-wilds of Michigan tomorrow, I’m posting my March recap today. I’m pretty darn sure I’m not going to get much writing done over the next few days. By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 4 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 1 Resubmissions: 2 New Submissions: 0 […]

A late recap

| March 12, 2012

I forgot to post my weekly recap on Friday, so here it is today instead! This past week was mostly one for editing and reviewing. The only writing I got done was one section of a short story I was working on, though I’ve decided since that I’m going to shelve that story for a […]

Another review up!

| March 8, 2012

I’ve got another review up on Nevermet Press today. It’s for The Hunt of the Unicorn, which is another young adult novel.

Friday recap

| March 2, 2012

Well, we’re only two days into March, which means I don’t have much to report for my Write1Sub1 story. And really, I didn’t write much at all. I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time getting through this super thick anthology that I’m reviewing. Only 4 stories left now, which I hope I’ll finish […]

February recap

| February 29, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 (“The Devil’s Toybox”) Rejections received: 2 Resubmissions: 0 New Submissions: 1 (“The Devil’s Toybox”) Stories out at the end of the month: 4 So what did I get done this month that isn’t reflected above? I only wrote one book […]

Friday Recap

| February 24, 2012

Wow, I kinda fell off from posting here. I suppose working 9 hour days will do that to a person. I didn’t quite get as much done this week as previously hoped for. I wrote another chapter for my novella, and then went back and partially fixed a problem that had occurred to me in […]