*laughs* I love my friends. All of them, but at this particular moment, the writer-friends in particular. Michelle Sagara is making popcorn to nibble on while she watches us do our Book Race. She alone among many seems to be holding out against the challenge–Laura Anne Gilman, Kari Sperring, and Kate Elliott have also signed on, and it looks like Alma Alexander is also teetering on the edge of doing so. :) The book I’m aiming to write in 5 weeks is a middle grade novel about pirates and lost…
a novel in five weeks
I have accepted /Chaz’s challenge, and will be writing a novel in five weeks. Chaz is already ahead; he has 15K of an 80K novel written, and I have, um. Five or ten hand-written pages of a 60K novel written. More alarmingly, I have a Walker Papers proposal and a short story to do, both of which really need to be done before the novel. BUT I SHALL NOT DESPAIR. What I shall despair over, just a little perhaps, is the discovery that the lullaby I’d been planning to base…
Seriously, people? *Seriously*?
There’s been a futher in the comics world. Two of them, in fact. Futher #1 is that Laurence Fishburne has been cast as Perry White in the new Superman movie. Futher #2 is that in the Ultimates world, they’ve killed off Peter Parker and the new Spider-Man is Miles Morales, a black/Latino kid. Both of these things are apparently unforgiveable to a vocal segment of comics fans because PERRY AND SPIDER-MAN ARE WHITE DUDES. Seriously, people? I mean, really? *Seriously*? Okay, possibly I’m not the go-to girl on this, because…
impossible things
It’s almost impossible that “Womanthology”, the all-women comics anthology Kickstarter project, can reach $100K in the next 61 hours, but if you want to help make it happen… Seriously, this is a project I wish to hell I’d known about before it launched. It means a lot to me to see women working in the comics field–my letterer on Chance was a woman, and I hope very dearly that if we make ElectriCity go that we’ll get a woman colorist*, because it’s important to me to work with other women…
not dead!
Not dead. All my spare processing time the past week has been taken up by re-reading the Continuing Time novels. I stayed up way too late last night finishing THE LAST DANCER because I knew if I didn’t finish it yesterday then yet another work day would be shot to hell by me reading instead of writing. It appears that they’ve aged well, if they all kept me up too late. I cannot wait to read THE BIG BOOST, but I also cannot read it until I have at least…