the long haul

Posted on December 17, 2009 - Filed Under writing | 2 Comments

I just got two more rejections, the most recent in a whole lot of publishing-related rejections this year. Blech. Stick’em in the file with the rest of them, right?
Part of me feels depressed, but it feels sort of ghostlike, a shadow—a dark shadow, perhaps, but a shadow nonetheless—of former publishing related depressions. Such that, although [...]

1000 words a day

Posted on November 6, 2009 - Filed Under writing | 3 Comments

I hit 35,000 words on my current novel this morning. That’s about 120-140 pages, depending on how the paging is done. In other words, close to half. In Scrivener, each chapter has it’s own little file, so you don’t see the whole number unless you ask for it. I thought I was down in the [...]

how to get up and write at 5 in the fucking morning

Posted on September 18, 2009 - Filed Under writing | 3 Comments

Let me tell ya. Getting up at 5 In The Fucking Morning to write, something I would have sworn would NEVER work for me, not in a million years, not ever, getting up when it is cold and dark and lonely, well, it’s going GREAT.
It is so incredibly freeing to have my evenings to spend [...]

when to write

Posted on August 29, 2009 - Filed Under writing | 3 Comments

Every day, of course.
Yeah, all right. But when?
I am having an absolute REVOLUTION around when I write. It is ridiculously, painfully obvious. Only, you know, I’ve never thought of it before.
But before I tell you what it is, a tiny bit of backstory.
Before I had kids, I got up, I made a perfect latte in [...]

finishing up a novel is weird

Posted on May 8, 2009 - Filed Under writing | Leave a Comment

I finished the revisions on my latest novel—Go me!—and am now in that state of near hysteria while I wait for my assorted beta-readers to tell me it’s crap get back to me.
So, I’m using this period of waiting to plan out the next novel, which turns out to be an amalgam of twenty ideas [...]

variations of moonlight

Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under reviews | 1 Comment

I have previously posted about my severe disappointment that CBS canceled my vampire PI show “Moonlight.” (Moment of silence here, in remembrance of Mick, or in hatred of CBS, fielder’s choice.)

I love getting really involved in a story, which I certainly have done with Moonlight. But lately this one has yielded some unexpected insight on [...]