Last night, my nephew finished reading the book I wrote for him. My sister texted to say he went, “Whoa,” when he finished, then leapt up with a bounce and said “That was RIDICULOUSLY exciting!!!!” I guess I did okay. :) I’m so very glad, given that I’ve never written a book for an audience of one before, and I did really hope he would like it. Now I just have to write three more, and then I can give them to my agent. :)
Author: mizkit
end of year round-up
Everything contracted-for is done. I still have a few little things pending, and I need to write them the hell down so I remember to do them. Things like: – copy edits on BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER – copy/edits on “Don’t Wreck Your Soul” – chapter 2 of the ElectriCity script Coming up in January: – 4 Walker Papers/Kickstarter short stories – ElectriCity chapters 3-5 – “No Dominion”
The Year of the Short Story
2011 has been the weirdest writing year ever for me. I only wrote about–*pauses to count*–well, in the region of 300K, it looks like, which is actually pretty much my usual wordcount. Huh. But in years past I’ve gotten that wordcount primarily from books, and this year while I *have* written two books, I’ve also written…*pauses to count again* Uh. 21 short stories. And a comic script. And half a novella. Twenty-one short stories. This from someone who does not consider herself to be a short story writer*. 11 of…
What a lovely day. :)
It dawned relatively clear and not very windy this morning, so I made good on my promise to bring the nephews to the zoo. This was done with the explanation that I had no horse in this race: if they were unpleasant, I would happily turn around and take them home, because I can go to the zoo *any time I want*. But if they were charming and delightful, we would see all the animals they particularly wanted to see, and we would have lunch at the restaurant there, and…
lovely christmas
Lovely Christmas here. I cleaned up in the music & movies department, my clever husband having been paying attention when I’ve idly said “I’d like to hear more by them,” when someone whose vocals I like come on the music videos (and it takes me a long time, usually, to decide if I like someone, because I have real issues with one trick ponies and over-packaging of artists, so Ted’s done terrifically well in noting who I was interested in). I also, to my *total* astonishment, got volumes 3 &…