A couple weeks ago I posted about the musical my sister is developing. I filmed the performance they did, and she’s got the video up now: She’s now trying to get Arts Council funding for further development, and needs a whole lot of local support in the form of: – a director – a production manager – a stage manager – a producer – a costume designer – a set designer – a dramaturg – an Arts Council-funded venue willing to support her Now, here’s some of the tricky stuff:…
oh yay!
Judith Tarr is doing another Kickstarter! This one’s space opera. I cannot wait to read it. I am full of joy and happiness that she’s running another Kickstarter, and just *glows* We live in such a cool time right now, for writers (for artists!). The ability to connect directly with our readers, to offer projects like this, to try things we might not otherwise get a chance to…it’s just such an amazing thing, something that ten years ago would have been just about impossible to comprehend, and I’m so delighted…
chugga chugga
16.5K in the past two days. Pretty good. If I can get 5K in tomorrow (she said dubiouly) I’ll be at 60K on the book going into the four remaining days of this blitz. I am at the stage of the book where I’m not at all convinced I have enough story to get to the wordcount I need. The flip side of that is: last book. It’s going to need denouement. Possibly quite a lot of denouement. So I’m probably fine. I said nervously. A young woman with a…
writing blitz ahoy
thinks to do today: – buy the new bon jovi album – buy the new bowie album – buy the latest marvel ultimate graphic novel collection book – write 10,000 words (9200 is close enough) it is possible that one of those things is not like the others. putting my head down for the next several days–through the 17th, if worst comes to worst–to get as many words down on SHAMAN RISES as is humanly possible. to help myself along, yesterday i bought a new laptop. tablet. tabtop? laplet? yesterday…
Kitsnaps: Golden Graveyard
This is from the same shoot that yesterday’s misnamed Canal Reflection is from. The light was utterly magnificent that morning, and I got a lot of really, really nice shots. This was in January 2006, *just* after we got here, and mere days after I got my (now broken) Nikon D50 DSLR, so I was out taking loads of pictures and getting a handle on the new camera. I believe I was sort of balanced precariously over a wall trying to take this picture, as the wall was exactly the…