A friend just called up to discuss gingerbread cookies, and in the course of the discussion said he’d just finished HEART OF STONE, and had a question which led to an extrapolation which was quite obvious and fits really well with the mythology of the world, but which I had in no way considered. Cool. I cannot tell you how much I am *not* going to be writing a new story any time soon that explores the new idea. I just realized yesterday that I’ve been a Full Time Writer…
gah
I had one of those horrible dreams where it’s the last week of classes and you’ve just realized you’ve forgotten, for the entire semester, to go to one of them. Except this was worse than usual, because it was somehow a semester and a *half* (it was high school, not college) and I hadn’t missed *one* class, I’d missed *all* of them, and I wasn’t going to graduate unless I somehow got to talk to *all* of my teachers and explain (not that I had an explanation) and do seven…
1183
There are 141,098 words in the QUEEN’S BASTARD manuscript. There is one paragraph–67 words–that is, to me as the writer, *flawless*. It does what I want it to. Everything in the book to that point leads up to this one paragraph, and when I read it, it takes my breath away. I have no idea if it will work the same way for other people, but for me, that .05% of the book is perfect. A hundred and forty thousand words for a tiny handful that make me want to…
2008 in a nutshell
This is all ‘s fault. The approximate shape of 2008: To write, like, already contracted: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN (Inheritors’ Cycle, Book 2, due Feb 1 (agh)) CAULDRON BORNE (Walker Papers #4, due June 1) To write, not already contracted: TAKE A CHANCE 5-12 To revise: RIGHT ANGLES TO FAERYLAND To write if the stars align: TRUTHSEEKER CENTENARIAN To propose: THE IMPERATOR’S HEIR (Inheritors’ Cycle, Book 3) ElectriCity Project Of Sufficient Coolness & Yet Obviousness That Mentioning Its Name Would Give Somebody Else Perhaps In A Better Position To Pursue It…
how unusual!
That was deeply unusual. I was invited to participate in an anthology a while ago, and while I don’t actually know if the anthology is going to happen or not, this morning I woke up with the first lines of the story in my head. Now, I don’t write short stories very often, because I don’t think I’m particularly good at them and I almost always want to write a longer story out of the idea rather than a shorter story. However, 90 minutes after getting up, I have a…