In Shadows

Oi, what a week!  You know what’s worse than a garage band staying in your hotel?  THIRTY garage bands staying in your hotel!  UGH!  It was a freakin’ ZOO! What with exhaustion, Poison Night, a six day stretch of Hel, and a mountain of unfinished chores, I haven’t actually written anything on Broken Trails.  I’ll [...]

Going great here!  As of now, I’m completely out of the Catering department at my hotel.  I’m a fully trained Loss Prevention officer instead.  Security is a wonderful department!  I’ve had time to THINK! Just yesterday alone, I completely restructured Sanguire.  jrosestar, thanks for calling off the bet!  That entire novel is now defunct.  No [...]

Spent the morning updating my website. In particular, correcting the information and links on the pages about my books, adding a review on Tiopa (thanks, Elaine!) and checking the links in my sidebar. Tonight’s Mother’s Night. Tonight is when the membrane between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their finest. Tonight [...]

I’ve been remiss. People are wondering if I’m still breathing. I am! I am! Busy, busy, busy at work. Despite that, the most exhausting thing is the constant shifting between days and swings. I have to cover the manager’s days off, and still cover the swing shift as much as possible. Six days last week. [...]

Thank gods. 2537 words today, chapter twenty-nine of Orphan Maker is complete. My outline has gone the way of the dodo bird, though, which has been part of my hang up. Getting too invested in these outlines it seems. If I open up the document these days, I don’t even bother with my Shadow program. [...]

2044 words finally written! Woot! I expect I’ll be writing more the next week or so. Part of my problem is the new shift (which isn’t a problem now that I’m back on swings for awhile.) I wish I had a Powerbook! My Palm keyboard doesn’t have a Dvorak driver, so I can’t use it [...]

Been pretty busy at work and at home to write or post. I’ll admit, some of it is an annoying addiction to Second Life, but the work front has been exhausting. The holiday season are both our busiest and laziest times of the year. Orycon totally rocked, of course. I had a blast and went [...]

And I write. 1952 words, chapter twenty-six of Orphan Maker is complete. Also ran errands today. Picked up my month’s prescription, did some banking, and went to the audiologist to pick up my new ear molds. There’s a definite improvement in hearing with them. The rubber and plastic get old and less flexible; that interferes [...]

Of course. Busy day, but I spent a good portion of it doing cleaning stuff . . . which left me alone with my thoughts for a bit. Some story changes are in the works. Orphan Maker: Got a handle on the next chapter. I’ll have to reread the last to make certain where I’m [...]

Last night as I began drifting off, Tommy Boy came to mind. Tommy Boy is one of the Gatos in Orphan Maker. He and his girlfriend, Emerita, have a three year old. They got shafted when they were farmed out to the other homesteads and ended up with the town assholes. Needless to say, he [...]

Chapter 23 of Orphan Maker is complete. Now Loomis has some serious thinking to do about Gwen’s true intentions. Seems Weasel is very much like his namesake, sowing seeds of dissension at the festival. Next chapter will be Loomis off getting drunk as she ponders this negative insight to a woman she’s beginning to feel [...]

Over a grand by 8am. I can dig it. Nonnycat, you were right. Wrong scene, wrong time. I’ve decided to skip the flashback for the present time. I hope to get the next chapter finished before noon. I blew $27 bucks at iTunes yesterday. I’ve been on a nostalgia kick – Bon Jovi, Damn Yankees, [...]

I’ve been sitting here in front of the next chapter of Orphan Maker for a furking HOUR. Ain’t nothing coming to me! I know what scene’s next. I know who’s point of view it should focus on. I know what needs to be imparted to the reader. But it won’t WRITE, dammit!

Chapter anyway. Still about 120 words light, but maybe I can beef it up a bit tomorrow when I review. Gwen and the Loomis clan are in Lindsay Crossing for the festival. She runs into her ex, Weasel. It’n not pretty. He imparts some information about her new friends, suggesting that one of them is [...]

In the last two days, I’ve been through two rounds of publication edits on Warlord Metal and written 2k on the next chapter of Orpham Maker One more round is possible for WM, though I’m hoping it won’t be much. I’ve also got a great idea for the next chapter of OM, so perhaps the [...]