Because That’s Just How It’s Done

About seven months ago I got a new laptop. It was very bell-and-whistle-less, that was the point. I needed something compact that would travel easily so I could write wherever, including those cramped ‘business class’ seats on planes.It does have one...

Sekrit Projects

It’s Tuesday. I say this more to remind myself than to remind you. I had yesterday off so it still feels like Monday, which will be awesome when I get to Friday and it has arrived a day early.On Saturday and Sunday I worked diligently on my new cyberpunk/soft...

Childhood Heroes & Dreams Crushed

This is the post that inspired my sadness today. I tried to find the source the author quoted, but I wasn’t able to track it down.Let me take a step back. When I was a teenager, way back in the days before the internet, there were two authors who inspired me to...

TLIF – My Theme’s Too Epic for Me

Very first of all, Gwen at Run Gwen, Run! Write Gwen, Write! has honored me with this stunning Kreativ Blogger Award. Gwen is awesome and talented and you should all go follow her if you aren’t already ^_^I finished my outline yesterday. It’s staring back...

World and Character Discovery

After I wrote yesterday’s post, I remembered how it is I get to know my characters. To be fair, these new people came to me with a fairly complete surface. I knew what they looked like, what their skills and talents were, where they came from. A lot of the...

A Whole New (Character) World

On Sunday afternoon, I finished enough of a draft of Apathy’s Hero to send it to the kind people who volunteered to read it. Not all of them. There are still two names on my list who don’t have it, but they’re signed up for the post-revision round...