It always amazes me how getting a couple of big, mentally taxing projects (like, say, a major novelette commission and the Very Important Third Book Of A Trilogy) squared away opens out the horizons. There are suddenly more hours in the day, and more energy to get stuff done in those hours. Creative work is [...]
I am so very stuck on how this character outsmarts a nemesis. I’d go write the other story, but I’m stuck on how those characters outsmart their nemesis. Basically, I have made the critical error of trying to write stories about people being smart, which means I have to be smart. *sigh*
I delivered the publication version of Steles of the Sky at about 4 AM this morning. It goes to production now, and if all goes well, next April you will have a lovely bundle of pages or pixels in your hot little hand. (I’ve already seen sketches for the cover art. Oh man. This is [...]
I’ll be a Guest of Honor at RavenCon in Virginia next April! And I will be joining That Boy I Like at NYC ComiCon for One! Day! Only! in October. And now, back to the word mines. travel and appearances 2013: Boskone: Boston, MA, February 15-17 2013 Signing: New England Mobile Book Fair, Newton Highlands MA, [...]
I mentioned this briefly in the last post, and I think I’ll mention it again, because I could not be more thrilled: Scott’s handed in the final revisions on The Republic of Thieves, and its publication date is set for October 10th 2013 in the UK and October 8th 2013 in the US. I know [...]
Like many people in my line of work, I suffer from a few of the drawbacks of typing for a living. One of those is sedentism (a bunch of my writer friends and I tend to refer to our butts as our “street cred”–wordcount is produced by Butt In Chair) and another one is the [...]
Well, I am declaring this thing a draft. It’s not by any means a good draft, but I’ve had the realization that I can’t actually write the climactic three or four chapters of the novel until I go back and fix all the bits of things I need to fix in the earlier chapters of [...]
For the next Some Time, I will be Finishing The Book. This means I will not in particular be on the Internets. However, if you want to follow the liveblogging of this desperate act, it will be available on my livejournal under the usual tags.
(Some of this post could be triggery to people who find talk about fitness and weight management triggery. FYI.) I donated blood today! First time in a year and a half (I was having iron level issues when I started eating a more flexitarian diet, and got refused several times. I seem to have a [...]
She got to get behind the mule In the morning and plow. She got to get behind the mule In the morning and plow. –Tom Waits Last night I wrote 4000 words. Today, I ran twelve miles. These two activities are not really dissimilar. They require good prep, training, proper rest and nutrition, and they’re [...]