No new words today, so far.  We spent about an hour on the phone, revising our plot outlline.  We're breaking this down analytically, figuring out how many words we need, then how many pages, then how many pages per chapter, how many chapters we need and how many scenes per chapter.  So we can write a sentence about each scene (or actually, one for ( Read more... )

I'm reading Caitlin Kittredge's first book - Night Life - and my friends need to know something about the book.

In the acknowledgements, she thanks Corin and all the alums of the 2006 Writer's Weekend who reassured her she wasn't crazy to write a book about a werewolf detective.

It brought tears to my eyes.

 For the past three hours, I have been cycling between checking my hotmail account, reading my LJ and checking the mail on my WRP email account.  I'm not expecting anything, but I'm looking for something exciting to come up ( Read more... )

 I am writing a were-penguin story for my submission for the Jay Lake writing retreat at Iron Springs.  it's a paranormal romance story, so it won't be to everyone's taste.  But who doesn't love a were-penguin?