Holy crap, NaNoWriMo is a month away. I guess I’m officially announcing my intention to cheat this year. Yes, I am continuing The Afflicted instead of moving on to the shiny new gay romantic steampunk road novel. This makes me sad, because the new novel would be incredibly fun to write (All world- and character-building, [...]
The Afflicted
Sugar High
Oh, how I love the Saturday after my mid-month paycheck. The rent and student loan payment eat my end-of-the-month paycheck, but the mid-month only has all the other bills coming out, which means I can afford to do a big grocery run, during which I buy things that do not involve ramen or peanut butter. [...]
Weather, Writing, and Wildfires
My normally slow dialup connection is even worse than usual, making anything net-related take at least three times what it should. So no new photos today. However, I have put together a MySpace profile, mostly to see what all the fuss was about. I still don’t get it. It doesn’t seem much different from LiveJournal, [...]
Spinning my wheels
I am stuck once again on The Afflicted. There are so many stories I need to tell at once in this thing, it’s overwhelming and I get confused about where to start and how to proceed and where in the book each of these stories should be revealed and how and where and if they’re [...]
Character Interview: Eve Harper
I don’t know how much “screen time” Eve will get in the novel. She gets quite a bit in the first chapter, and progressively less as I get into the novel. She may come back towards the end, or in a subplot, mostly because she’s fun to write.
This is Eve at fifteen, somewhere [...]
Progress! Mostly in my head, though.
I have now managed to knit two whole dishrags. Not even plain flat one-color dishrags. These. Well, one was modified a bit because I screwed up a couple of rows 2/3 of the way through and decided to just go with it. But, two finished dishrags! They are things of beauty. Well, okay, maybe not. [...]
Dear characters: Please do something stupid.
I think I’ve figured out what’s wrong with The Afflicted. The characters are sane.
Seriously. They’re all sane and stable and practical and react the way sane, stable, practical people would. None of them seems inclined to run off and do something completely rash and dangerous. Not even Thaddeus, who’s kind of [...]
