I had real hopes of finishing “Hot Time” yesterday. I wanted it to be done so I could do some polishing Monday and get it handed over to beta readers for commentary before I got it ready to send out to its patrons. Instead I hit the novelist’s event horizon. I *know* I’m not more than 1500 words (at the most) from finished, but God, I just could not reach the end. I kept trying. The story reached Official Novella Length (17.5K) early on, but I knew it was never…
thinks to do with a link salad
thinks to do this week/end / in august: – email the dabels – email melissa – finish chance essays – check with jason wrt chance essay – finish “hot time” – post belfast writeup/pictures – finish rattlesnake proposal – start work on mia – answer fred’s email thinks to do in september: – the last set of TRUTHSEEKER revisions, i expect – either start WAYFINDER, or at least revise the proposal, depending – add tpc excerpts to cemurphy.net – update cemurphy.net links – start cemurphy.net redesign – work on kitsnaps…
Geeks, Represent!
I have damned good friends. Lithera picked up copies of the FCBD issue of Chance, as well as issue #5, while she was at ComicCon, and I have just received a big box full of those and other extremely splendid things, including a STRANGERS IN PARADISE canvas bag. Which reminded me that I was thinking a couple days ago about how many of my belongings subtly or not-so-subtly inform the world that I’m a geek. I’ve got another tote bag that’s a Browncoats mail bag. All of my coats have…
*laugh* ah, the writer’s life
I’ve been getting happy comments from people who’ve received and read WALKING DEAD and are ready for the next one. *laughs* No fair. I can’t keep up. :) Actually, of course, I’m way ahead of them, starting the 6th book right now, but it takes *so little* time to read a book and so long to write one, even if you write fast! Mind you, vis-a-vis wanting the last Codex Alera book RIGHT NOW, I’m just like my readers when *I’m* reading, but still! On the other hand, I also…
tiny bubbles
I read Jim’s PRINCEPS’ FURY over the weekend. It is true I’m turning into a terrible sop, but it made me cry. Well done, Jim. Also, want the last book NOW!!! Been working on “Hot Time” today, which has mostly meant reading and cutting rather than writing scads. At somewhere north of 10,000 words, it is not at all finished, and still visibly flawed, but I’m beginning to think maybe I’ve got a story here. This rather relieves me (and probably surprises no one else, but that’s the nature of…