Hi ya’ll. Yesterday  was a big ole waste of time, in that I didn’t really get much writing done. I got a lot of cutting and pasting done, but nothing was really accomplished. I did, however, do a bunch of…
Category: Writing Process
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 5
So I’m all set to rock out writing, and I’ve already got a good start. But the problem is that I’m the worst procrastinator, EVER, and I am shaking my fist at Twitter. Twitter is the bane of my existence,…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 4
Yesterday I went over my updated outline, again, and then emailed it to my editor at Orbit, Devi Pillai, and my agent at McIntosh and Otis, Rebecca Strauss. About a half hour later, Devi called and we chatted about the…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 3
So I had to do what must be the most painful thing possible in revisions: I had to cut a whole storyline, which meant I had to cut MY FAVORITE CHAPTER. Why do I love the chapter? It’s pure fun.…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 2
Today I’m expanding my new rough outline for my second novel. I’m still leaving it big and rough and loose; I don’t want to invest too much time in it in case the editor pooh-poohs my course of action. After…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 1
So, today I’ve officially begun revising Tracking the Tempest, Book Two in the Jane True Series. Basically what I’m doing for these revisions is completely hacking apart the first third of the book, making significant changes to the second third,…
World Building 101: a Redux
So, here’s the blog post I said I’d write about what happened at my world building workshop. But first I want to set up why I did this workshop and how it became something a little different from what I’d…
World Building 101
So, I ran a little workshop at my University on Wednesday about World Building. Â I’m going to blog about that for my next few posts. Â Firstly, I’m going to put up the handout I made for my students. Â Then I’ll…
On Narcissism and Protagonists
So I’m doing a shit ton of interview questions for Falcata Times, some of which they’ll use in their magazine  and all of which will go up as a FAQ section of this website, eventually.  (I’m halfway through, Gareth, I…
What I Learned From Copyediting
So I just finished reviewing my copyedits from Orbit. Â They were great. Â Whoever did the copyedits was super thorough, which I really, really appreciate. Â I did learn a few things for next time, however. Â And I will share them with…