Category: novels
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Sounding board carpentry
Finished up a structural revision yesterday on book 3–it wasn’t like one of my usual full revision passes, but the structural element I decided to fix had far-reaching consequences, so rewriting still took a bit. Next up, a short story for an anthology, and then back for a proper deep revision pass. This new short…
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Wheeee!
Look what the mail snails dropped off for me this week! (Andrew there belongs to me–he’s just Vanna-ing the ARCs for me)
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Snowportmanteau!
So it looks like Seattle is done with Snowmaggedon, or Snowpocalypse or whatever you want to call it. My corner of the city didn’t get it badly, but of course that did me no good when anywhere I wanted to go was under a layer of ice… It got me thinking about weather in my…
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Excavator
I have returned to civilization! I spent about half a week at my grandparents’, which I class as a writing retreat, because there’s absolutely nothing to do in their house, above and beyond the lack of internet. Grocery shopping every few days is a grand adventure. But it did mean I finished the discovery draft…
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Drafting process
Discovery draft troubles: (and unhelpful friends) Me: wtf time of day is it right now in my stupid novel anyway Friend: Twilight. Friend: *ducks before she gets smacked* XD
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Sentence conditioner
A busy weekend in the non-writing quarters of my life, and a busy week before that in revisions. I still have some spots that will need changes later in the novel, but the beginning I’m pretty happy with, so I started in on the sentence-detangling step. I have, you see, an affliction I call Convoluted…
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10,000 hours
Short update today. Head-down in the latest book 2 revisions. I encountered an interesting bit of synchronicity the other day, in that I encountered a mention of the idea of 10,000 hours of practice leading to success in two very different places. I decided to sit down and calculate out how close I was to…
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Wolf Haven
Field trip, today! I maintain it was research related. (And it was! Sorta.) I headed on down to Wolf Haven, near Olympia. I went once in middle school as part of a camp field trip, and had very pleasant memories. I was extremely impressed on how well it held up. The volunteer who led our…
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RFSS
Back for a proper post! Hopefully a concise one, because thoughts on this subject have been bubbling around in my head since I got back from Germany and read the article, but I’m within spitting distance of the end of the revision of book 2 I’m currently on, so I also want to polish that…