In my last real post I said I've been able to return to writing. Now I can say with confidence that the difference between now and a couple month ago is amazing. It's really been a zero-to-sixty change ( Read more... )

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I've been away a long time. You wouldn't believe how many blog posts I've written in my head over the last year. Sometimes it helped my clarify my thoughts. There were still so many moments I wish I could have written down in order to hold them forever. Dated, posted and pressed in a flower book ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe that the last time I did a big Beatrix photo post was September. Time has flown by.

Beatrix is ten months old. Soon I'll have a year-old child.


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This is a surprisingly useful  list.

In 2008, ( Read more... )

Beatrix is so awesome ( Read more... )

My story The Buried Years is online at Clarkesworld Magazine. It's short. You should read it right now.

Also, the art is creepy-good. Now I want to tell that story.

So I made 30,000 words. It wasn't easy and
I had to use my Crystal Sword of Badwriting, but I did it.

And, just as I have every year, I learned something I didn't expect. I thought I had a problem with endings, but I've discovered that's not quite right.

For a long time I've been writing these killer openings; the tension builds, the stakes rise ( Read more... )

In 2007, ( Read more... )

The goal is five thousand words this month ( Read more... )