Crazy, Toys in the Attic, Going Crazy
You might wonder where I’ve been. I’ve been knee-deep in the book. I’m almost done. Within a tantalizing couple of inches, but those inches are proving tangled and thorny. I persevere. Boy of size is not feeling well. Having a…
Author idiocy
Most writers know better than to read reviews. Good, bad, or indifferent, they just aren’t healthy for the writerly condition. It is a condition. A kind of mental disease, I sometimes think. Good reviews are wonderful and they stroke the…
You’d think it would be easier
Maybe it’s just that my life isn’t terribly exciting, but I can’t seem to find things to say to update my blog. Or maybe I’m busy. Sure. That’s it. I’m busy writing the untitled second book of the Diamond City…
A snippet for your entertainment
As the title says, I wanted to give you some entertainment. Here’s hoping I succeeded. A snipped from the WIP: “They split up,” I said. “Three of them went to the far right, two others went to the second…
news of one sort or another
I made it home from Colorado. The teaching was a lot of fun, but exhausting with all that was going on. Sadly, a good friend died on the same day I came home. She’d been fighting cancer for some time,…
A snippet from the WIP
I very much doubt this will make the final version of this nameless book. And yet, I love this so much I have to share. It is wrong. So, so, so, wrong: Lately my dreams had been divided equally between…
The wild book in progress
This is from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life. It’s my go-to book when writing becomes thorny. Here’s where I’m at now. She says it so well. I do not so much write a book as sit up with it,…
On Crosspointe
I had an ugly realization the other day that I’d forgotten some serious developments in The Hollow Crown and had neglected to account for them in plotting out the next Crosspointe book. Bad. Very bad. I’ve been rereading the past…
Trace of Magic Snippet
I finally FINALLY finished my revision of Trace of Magic and sent it back to my editor. I really like it and hope that I’m right. Anyhow, in honor of finishing, here’s a snippet for you. A week later,…
A snippet for you
The boy barfed up a ridiculously expensive pill tonight. Nuff said on that. And now for a snippet. This is from my nameless novella, and I have not written any words on it for awhile. Same as my other work.…