So it's been a few months since I started querying Crimson Mask and I've noticed a couple things have changed since I queried my first fantasy novel, some time around 2000 ( Read more... )

I haven't touched, barely even THOUGHT of Magic: The Gathering over the last five or so years. The last time I even considered it, was while I was at Great Escape to buy something else entirely, and flipped through their binder of cards from the new set, stunned by the changes they had made to the game. And even before that, the last time I bought ( Read more... )

I feel so dirty. I'm working on a screen-play. And I actually MEAN it.

It's been a rough couple of days and realized I should probably post something ( Read more... )

I may have to rethink this live-journal. It's starting to become nothing more than a catalog of all my rejection letters and the stuff I can't seem to get myself to work on ( Read more... )

I cannot seem to find the focus to work on anything. Everything seems a colossally bad idea and a brilliantly good idea all at the same time.

Crimson Mask - Bad idea) It's already 150,000 words. That's already pushing it. Additional chapters will only stack up the word count, and if someone likes it, it'll just be wasted time anyway. Good idea) I  ( Read more... )

So the Mars rovers apparently have their own twitter page.

And naturally, I'm bookmarking it.

This is how I spend my free time.

I can't decide if I'm proud or embarrassed.

http://twitter.com/MarsRovers

Got my second rejection letter today. Bleh. Again, it wasn't one that looked at samples, but it was one of the big guns ( Read more... )

So I got my first rejection letter for CM today. (The previous one had been an e-mail.) It's a little disheartening, but it was not an agent I was really gunning for, nor one that had wanted a sample. Still, it's a bitter reminder of what it feels like to receive a rejection, and I'm a little freaked out, only because I'm afraid that this may be ( Read more... )

From reannon Post the first line paragraph of your last 20 stories projects - published or unpublished - and look for any patterns.

I don't think I even have 20 stories. But between that and the novels, I'll see what comes out. From most recent to most in the past...

The grandest of tales, so the Green Cloak says, starts with the smallest, most unassuming ( Read more... )