Month: November 2009

  • TalysMana: The first scene has gone live.

    I got WAY carried away tonight. Wrote over 1500 words on TalysMana. TalysMana is the novel I’m giving away in its entirety, one scene at a time, as I write it. And the first scene (over 2000 words long), is now available. If you’d like to read the whole novel for free, and find out…

  • A girl wakes up naked…

    My main character in TalysMana wakes up to discover that she has been unconscious on the floor for three days, everything she owns has been stolen, she has no memory of what happened, and thugs are standing over her debating “getting rid of the body” versus just getting out of the place and leaving her…

  • Postcard from Saturday, with Words

    My goal today was to sleep seventy hours and get caught up. I failed. I wish to complain to The Management who does not make a seventy-hour nap achievable in a 24-hour day. Anyway. I didn’t write, but you did. So how’s your story coming? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • The Friday WABWM, and a Cookie

    I hit 70 hours plus again this week doing How to Revise Your Novel. I am DEEPLY grateful for the night off. But you’re writing. So have a virtual fresh-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookie on me. How are the words coming? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Sweet-Spot Mapping TalysMana

    My writing today hasn’t yet resulted in keeper words, but I’m zeroing in on what I want to have in the story. And frankly, I’ve hit the tone I want, too. I want to do something with the same mix of humor and seriousness I did early in my career, with books like Sympathy for…

  • Introducing TalysMana

    So I’ve discovered something interesting. Writing a complex 300,000-word novel while writing a complex, massive novel revision course is turning my brain into mush. This is not fun. Sort of hurts, actually. So in the shower this morning, I was kicking around the issue—put the question to myself of how to define the problem, got…

  • Aleksa learns the secret

    Ki finally admits the truth to Aleksa…and she didn’t react the way I expected. Interesting. So tomorrow, I’ll pursue the conversation further, and find out why she responded as she did. 293 words. How did your writing go? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Staging A Rescue of the Untrusting

    Back to Ki’s POV, and him pulling Aleksa out of a situation he previously got her into. I did 3588 words on Lesson Four of HTRYN today, and was pretty happy to get the 287 I managed on Dreaming the Dead. I’m not exactly enthralled by what I got. But I’m dead tired, and I…

  • Main Character Transition

    Aleksa has discovered having people trying to kill her, in some odd way, agrees with her. Her life, derailed when she was fifteen, has taken an odd turn suddenly, and she discovers that she has something to live for—that her life has become valuable to her again. 569 words. How are you doing? Download as…

  • Saturday NOT In the Park (WABWM)

    The Brain Mass Issue The news on my brother-in-law, by the way, is there is no news. He’s in a holding pattern now, where the hospital with the doctor who WANTS to do his surgery suggested he go to a bigger medical center, and the bigger medical center said he’s not a county resident and…