Month: March 2007

  • It broke me, but I’m back.

    About 3:30-4ish on Friday, I just could not do another word. I’d made it less than halfway through the pages I had to get, but I was staring at the page in front of me, and the gears in my head were just going “click, click, click” and my fingers weren’t moving. Sometimes, no matter…

  • God, I need a day off

    Fifty pages a day is just brutal. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Needed a short break

    Made my fifty pages last night, and am plugging through the next batch today at about equal pace (in other words, looks like another looooong day), and after pages and pages of my freakin’ scrawls, and with pages yet to go until I get back to lighter revisions, I needed to see type again. So…

  • Plot Clinic Outline

    I needed a break from reading my own squished, squiggled, handwriting doing type-in on The Ruby Key, so I took about half an hour and outlined the plot clinic. I know this isn’t going to make huge amounts of sense in this form. Each outline entry below, though, will have explanations, an example, and an…

  • Blew past the 50-pages mark

    I’m heading toward sixty pages of manuscript type-in for the day as I write this, with 4500 net new words added to the manuscript (don’t even want to consider gross new words, because I have added in pages and pages of handwritten stuff this morning and afternoon) and I’m going to keep running with this…

  • Quick breather

    I was up and writing at about 2:30 AM. Back pain woke me up, and I knew I was going to be a long time getting back to sleep. Might as well be productive, I figured, and did twenty-five manuscript pages (significantly more real pages, because one manuscript page can and often does have two…

  • Fiction prices dropped

    Novel-length fiction at the shop has dropped to $3.99 per book. This isn’t a sale—it’s the new price. I’m hoping in the not too distant future to put some novellas up at $1.49 each. Starting with a new Cadence Drake story. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Slooooooooooooow

    I hand-wrote a lot of new material on The Ruby Key. Apparently a lot more than I’d thought. I’m up a couple thousand words already, and I’ve cut pages, and I’m not that far into the type-in. Threw my back out yesterday lifting very heavy office chair over office obstacles while moving camp from the…

  • Monday morning

    I can hear faint echoes of The Mamas and the Papas singing Monday, Monday in the back of my mind. I’m tired. Really, really, really tired. The last few days, I’ve had to set a timer to remind myself to stand up and move once an hour. I hand-wrote more than twenty new pages yesterday,…

  • On HAWKSPAR

    On my fifteen-minute stretch break, so this will have to be fast. Got news this morning that Anna Genoese is leaving Tor on the 20th, and that I’ll have a new editor. Anna says she’ll finish the edits on HAWKSPAR before she leaves, but obviously I won’t be able to finish them by the end…