Since my whirlwind trip to California last month my creative work has been scattered and inconsistent. I have had some much-needed moments of random insight that have helped make sense of plot elements that were just...there...in my first draft. For me, one of the most fun and interesting parts of discovery writing a first draft is going back and ( Read more... )

As I type this, I am sitting in an airport I've never been to before trying to figure out what to do with a layover on my way back (across the country) to campus so I can get my dissertation prospectus approved tomorrow. It is so strange to be traveling alone. The only upside I can really come up with is that it will give me a chance to get work ( Read more... )

I have worked on Bridget every day since last Friday (Sunday excepted), and I am loving it. The document I'm transcribing/pasting/editing everything into currently has over 37,000 words. There are still significant chunks to add that are already written as well as, I'm realizing, significant portions that still need to be written--like the things I ( Read more... )

I don't even know how to begin describing this last week but here it goes.

Last Monday I entered Chrysalis into a Secret Agent Contest and got chosen by the random number generator. From Tuesday to Friday other participants, along with an Anonymous Agent offered critiques on the first 250 words. By the end of it, Chrysalis had fourteen comments ( Read more... )

Well, not so good for this week. I guess inertia (and Resistance) are hard to overcome after a month of inactivity. But I'm still working at it. I did a practice sketch one day, which took about three hours and turned out really dismal. Then I despaired and blew off the rest of the day on video games. I wrote one day--a different day--but that ( Read more... )

First of all, I'm sorry for my rather long absence. I think I've been in a perpetual state of being overwhelmed for the past three or four months. But the end is finally in sight! I can't promise that I'll really be any more active here for the next two months, but I'll be back with a vengeance in September ( Read more... )

Brittany's back from the dead! And it's still Wednesday!

I've spent the last month largely offline, at home in Arizona. I spent a few days at home hanging out with my brother, then traveling with the family to Utah to take him to the MTC (and back again the next day). There was some SWTOR and some Doctor Who involved, too. Then we focused on ( Read more... )

"I read Chrysalis," my father says to me this afternoon. He's the first of the three people I've let into my written soul to get back to me. "It needs more words ( Read more... )

It’s no secret that I’ve been struggling with The Dying Shrine recently. (Just 1,442 words since the last post and 3,703 words for the entire month.) I’m stuck at the transition point between Act 1 and Act 2, and it’s those icky moments of change that have been stalling me ( Read more... )

I have not worked on Bridget in weeks (about as long as I've...ahem...not been posting). But that's not the good news. The good news is that I may have actually FINISHED MY PROSPECTUS ( Read more... )