I seem to be working on a new novel, this one high fantasy. It begins:

They sent the princess to the dragons with her handmaiden, her dog, and the least of her household gods. Of these the dog was undoubtedly the most valuable. Certainly it is hard to put a price on gods: but this one was, as noted, very small, and the dog was a true-bred ( Read more... )

mosellegreen posted a link to these scans of The Forerunner, a magazine written and published in 1914 by the feminist pioneer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. They're really great. I can't help but be amused, however, by a few of her recurring themes. So far I've counted four polemics against ladies' hats, and three against women who go past their speaking times at ( Read more... )

So like three times lately I've started writing an entry here, and ended up moving it to my WordPress blog. I still read LJ and I log in to comment, but I would say for those interested in my life and thoughts, you should really follow me there. It was originally just a baby blog, but now it's where I put almost all of my entries.

Yesterday I set a goal to cut at least ten pages off the beginning of my novel (so that the first fight scene happens by page 50). I went through carefully, examining every paragraph for its utility, and managed to cut three pages total. Crapadoodle ( Read more... )

I recently completed a second draft of my novel, and handed off manuscripts to a few close friends for their comments. While I'm waiting to get those back, I'm reading industry blogs--and to some degree re-reading, because I'm taking the opportunity to go back through the Miss Snark archives. (She's not dead or anything, she just stopped writing ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for Dollhouse, Serenity, Buffy, Angel )

BATWOMAN in DETECTIVE COMICS #860 ( Read more... )

I just finished (the first draft of) my novel!

I feel...kind of shocked. I've failed at trying to write a novel before; this is the first writing project of this length that I've completed. (Final word count: a perfectly respectable 79,649 words.)

It's silly. It's rough. It's clumsy in a lot of places. I don't think I stuck the ending. But I did ( Read more... )

Off the market. Sorry, ladies.

And do you, Sam, take this woman
In sickness and in health
In cockroaches and in no cockroaches
To capture the spiders and to take them outside
To deal with every creepy crawly thing
For as long you both shall live, amen.

We didn't have our wedding videotaped, but I would swear there was something in there about taking the spiders outside. Sam was ( Read more... )