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not the post i planned to write, and i seem to have misplaced my magic realism somewhere

On June 2, 2013 · 2 Comments · In mayalife, writing

I just started a post on all the great character driven yaoi/boys love manga I’ve read lately and so I began making a list, going through my Completed piles and Currently Reading piles, and sheesh, my list of good stuff got so long I became overwhelmed and before I even started, I gave up. Maybe [...]

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lucidity effect heading off to the editor, my newest baby is growing up

On May 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In mayalife, writing

Posts here have been sporadic as I’ve been pouring all writing time into another edit of Lucidity Effect, having gotten it back from my first round of beta-readers with some useful critique.  Mainly, I’m rewriting the big showdown chapter for the umpteenth time (probably not the last time, either) which is great because I’m finally [...]

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reading my old stuff is like visiting my younger self, which is to say, too weird

On April 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In writing

In 2002 I wrote a novel called The Luminous Music of Trees, a YA fantasy in a rural, agricultural, low-tech society, that has this kind of fairies-or-maybe-elves?-type creatures in it—in other words, a book that is totally different from the stuff I write now which tends to be urban, contemporary, and for adults.  But I [...]

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falling in love in my other life

On March 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In writing

I’m deep in revisions of Lucidity Effect (or is it “THE Lucidity Effect“?) getting up early, revising and writing my brains out for a couple of hours before the kids get up.  It’s  so great when the work is going well!  The dream scenes are getting a total overhaul.   A character who was a [...]

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emotional wallowing as a way to avoid writing is emotional

On February 6, 2013 · 1 Comment · In writing

Confession.  I finished the first draft of Lucidity Effect mid November and then spent TWO MONTHS fucking off.  I mean, I was opening the file and fiddling around, supposedly doing a second draft—but, honestly, I was spinning my wheels, twiddling with sentences, feeling depressed.  Sentences are not what a second draft is about, by the [...]

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i finished!

On November 19, 2012 · 4 Comments · In writing

I got to the end, I have the entire draft, beginning to finish, of The Lucidity Effect.  Woo hoo!

Well, if by finished I mean, I’m half-way done.  Which is to say, I’ve got all the clay on the wheel, time to make a pot.  Or maybe a film analogy?  Principal filming is done, time [...]

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violin maker’s wife FREE wednesday and thursday!

On November 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In writing

Time to get a free copy of The Violin Maker’s Wife, 40 pages of historical fantasy goodness by my writer friend, Luc Reid, and I,  and did I mention that it is FREE?   If you like spooky, enchanted violins and strong female protagonists, go on and get a copy, its a [...]

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do i dare to eat a peach?

On October 22, 2012 · 4 Comments · In writing

I am writing sex scenes for the new book.  I’m not a virgin at this (see Conjuring Raine), but this new book is asking for a heck of a lot more full frontal than I have previously gone in for.  I admit, it makes me nervous.  But I figure, if you’re going to do it, [...]

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writing is music is art

On October 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In writing

I usually write in silence, but sometimes I get a certain song looping in my head, connected, often, to a certain character or scene I’m working on, and I play it over and over and over.  I am always intrigued by this, by the interaction between different kinds of art, music to writing, movies to [...]

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writer’s report

On October 9, 2012 · 4 Comments · In writing

The Lucidity Effect—that’s the working title for my novel-in-progress—is just shy of 70,000 words (my other novels are all about 100,000 words) and is ticking along, slowly but steadily.   (Thus the more infrequent blogging.)  And I’m so relieved because, at this point, it seems fairly certain that I’ll finish it.  That is, I’m pretty sure, [...]

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