Over the years, I’ve read many fantasy books. Most of them have pretty much spiraled into the black abyss of my mind known as unmemory. Occasionally they would emerge without warning, especially if I’m reading a book that’s similar in plot (hey, didn’t I read this same thing some time ago? What was the name [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
10 Nov
Update on Willow (or Running the race as slow as I can…)
My friend Nicole recently ran the Chicago marathon. You can read her story, "Chasing Garbage Trucks (a marathon story)" at her blog, Five Penny Nicole. It’s really moving. Nicole is a fellow Chicagoan who also moved to Madison, so a lot of what she wrote resonated with me.
I mention this because as you can see, [...]
18 Aug
Dealing with Fantasy of a Different Sort (or I would reject your reality to substitute my own, except my fantasy is nicer than my reality…)
So last week our dryer broke down. Just stopped working on us. You would think that would sadden me, but it didn’t. For me, No dryer meant that I could actually dry our clothes outside.
Now let me tell you something–I’ve always had this weird desire to do line-drying outside. Call it a idyllic vision from [...]
7 Aug
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? …or Don’t be such a jackass in the comments section…
So ever since RaceFail, I’ve been keeping an eye on what people are buzzing about in the writing world. The latest is an anthology to be published by called The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF. Take a look at the table of contents. Notice anything about them? Now take a look at the comments.
Mind-blowing indeed.
When [...]
28 Jul
Weeping of the Willows update (actually, it’s more of a non-update…)
So this week is the last week of the boy’s summer school. Can’t believe six weeks went by so quickly. It’s a good thing I used all that time to focus exclusively on Willow…
…oh, wait. No I didn’t. Truth is, I did not work on Willow at all.
You see, back in June, I was working [...]
14 May
Status Update on Willow
It’s been about three months now since I started the second full rewrite of Willow. And today, I just started working on Chapter Five. That means that so far, I’ve been spending roughly 3 weeks on each chapter, instead of just one week like I thought. At this rate, I won’t be finished with Willow [...]
24 Mar
Weekly Cafe update and a little Writing News
Another bunch of links for you. I’m finding it easier to squeeze these kind of posts in between writing and real life.
First, an update on Willow: going slow, but I expected that to happen. I want the first three chapters of this book to really pull readers in, so I’m taking my time to make [...]
5 Mar
Death of a Writer Mama
This past week, I took Daniel to get registered for kindergarten. It hasn’t really hit me yet that come September, Daniel will be going to big-boy school, as we’ve been calling it. It hasn’t really struck me yet that within a few months, I’ll no longer have a preschooler on my hands, but an honest-to-goodness [...]
