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Writing update
As reported earlier, I finished the first draft of my urban fantasy novel The Ruthless Dead on November 12. I then let it sit and percolate for a while before starting in on draft number two. I finished that rather difficult … Continue reading
Writing update
I finished the first draft of The Ruthless Dead last night around 8:00. Yay for me! This is one of the rougher first drafts I’ve ever written. In the past, I’ve spent a fair amount of “draft one” time going … Continue reading
Writing update – the home stretch
I haven’t posted much about my own writing lately because there hasn’t been much to report other than word progress updates, but those are even more boring for me to write than they are for you to read, so I … Continue reading
How I write: draft of chapter one
In parts one and two of this little series of mine, I explained how I generated an idea, turned that idea into the framework of a story, and then built that up into an outline. In this part, I’m going … Continue reading
How I write: where I get ideas
This is going to be the first of a three-part series about my writing process. If you have no interest in looking under the hood at how a writer goes from idea to final product, move along! There’s lots of … Continue reading
Balticon recap
I had a great time at Balticon. It was my first as an active participant, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’ve been far too much of a solitary writer these past five professional years (due … Continue reading
Why writing made me a clean freak
Well, okay, not really. I was a clean freak before I was a writer. But not much before. Both seemed to have started uncoiling from my DNA at some point in high school. And now that I’m thinking about it, … Continue reading
One more comment about the benefit of detailed outlines
As I’ve talked about here and here and here, I write longish outlines for my novels. As I’ve been working my way through the outline for The Black Flame (the second volume in my YA series about a teenage girl … Continue reading
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Charlie Stross: what authors sell to publishers
Charlie Stross is one of the smartest guys writing science fiction today (if you haven’t read any of his work, by all means run out and grab something! And please pay for it after you grab it.). He also writes … Continue reading
Started the outline of a new novel, and what that outline looks like
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve started outlining the sequel to The Sapphire Eye, called The Black Flame. It’s moving along at a decent clip for this kind of writing, and by this kind of writing I mean … Continue reading
