Month: December 2001

  • Heading into The Wreck of Heaven

    This is to be one of those backstory-as-mythos sections — I have to remember to keep the conflict to the forefronts, because in writing such sections, it’s easy to be seduced by the sheer thrill of worldbuilding. Characters, conflict. And caffeine. Damn, but I have way too much of that in my system already. Download…

  • 2608 words, and our heroes are committed

    They’ll take on their burden and run with it.Me, though, I’m done for the night. Tomorrow, the tale of The Wreck of Heaven awaits. Should be fun. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • 2240 words, and searching out the value of death

    Molly is looking at her predecessors and noting that each of them, holding immortality firmly in hand, chose instead to embrace death at last — and she is trying to understand their pattern. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • 1370 words

    And the Night Watch has come hunting, bringing night with it. Molly resonates with the evil of another and has to face the fact that she carries a new and potentially deadly poison within her. Life is not necessarily life, death wears more than one face, and the ghosts are coming to call. Download as…

  • The thing about writing full-time …

    … about it being your only source of income, is that you know you can work all the time. And when things are tight, you feel like you should work all the time … that if you can just get more words on the page faster, that the money problems will get better, that you…

  • About 800 words on Talyn

    But it’s late and I’m tired and that’s really about enough for tonight. I like what I got. Talyn has an interesting voice. If I can get Betsy to buy her, she’ll be a lot of fun to write. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Back to work, with a twist

    I’m transferring what I have on Talyn to the Visor — I’ll work on it downstairs while hanging out. Who can resist goofy stop-motion Christmas movies with the single inevitable theme of “Oh my gosh, we’re going to have to Cancel Christmas This Year?” Well, me, frankly, but I like hanging out with my family,…

  • 2432 words, and the reunion went as well as I’d hoped

    And I’m done with this for the day. I’ll work on FALLEN SUNS stuff later. But now I get to take a break. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • 1663 words, and the introduction of danger

    Time for a visitation of the rr0n. Oh, boy. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • 1238 words, and I held off better than usual before checking this time

    I was pleasantly surprised, since I was expecting around 700. Lauren is dealing with poor Jake’s gate-travelling terror; a major, major issue that relates to stuff that happened in the first book, so I won’t go into detail. I’ll do my best to avoid spoilers. I like the way this is going. And I really,…