I'm finally fed up with LiveJournal after all these years.  I've created the new home for the writer's blog over at Blogger.com.  Come find me there :)

In order to preempt what could easily become another year or two revision, I decided to reoutline The Order to try and gauge the value of its current in media res construction versus a more common chronological format.  Sadly, it looks like I've been writing short stories too long:  the slow build of the chronological construction is not only a ( Read more... )

One final preemptive apology:  New deadline for The Order set to November 1st.  Clearly my weekends are not going to allow for the sort of overhaul I still have planned for this work in nearly the frequency I require.  In order to avoid putting out a prenatal disaster, I'm dedicating a sizable amount of time all throughout this month and next to ( Read more... )

Well.  There goes another deadline ( Read more... )

No luck.  The morning maintenance ran long, the day helping the parents set up a new laptop ate my afternoon, and now the internet is crapping out as I'm trying to download the latest version of my manuscript ( Read more... )

I made great headway last night on the remaining edits.  I've managed somehow to squeak in four entirely new scenes this week, the longest of which was last night.  I've been looking for ways to streamline the delivery of plot elements so as not to risk them seeming too scattered to follow.  Thankfully, the little muse that is conglomerate delivery ( Read more... )

Got more than halfway to the end yesterday, then came down with a bad case of vertigo this morning that's been dogging me all day.  Can't get my eyes to uncross, which makes editing bloody difficult.  Tomorrow is a game day and I'll be sleeping in to try and kick this illness for good.  Long story short, I may not have another chance to crank out ( Read more... )

This week and last have vanished beneath me without much warning.  I know now already that I will have plans every night up to and including Friday all day.  In addition, the work week is now packed with meetings, consultations and training workshops, so I have literally run out of hours in the day (as the timing on this post may indicate).  I'm ( Read more... )

I like to call this scene "never piss off an engineer, lest you be proven ignorant of their wizardly ways," but that's hard to fit into a journal post title.  So, here it is, completely unedited.  Please pardon the typos, I'll be getting to them when I do my comb-throughs next week.

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Brand brought the blade up again in the same wide arc as ( Read more... )

Bast is three hours away for the next two weeks training for her new job.  I'm most of the way through one of the last two new scenes.  I've structured out my time this week and next to get all the writing in and on into the editing.  I may even tinker at work a bit to fill in the gaps ( Read more... )