In Shadows

What an annoyance!  I opened up Broken Trails today only to discover the two scenes I’d edited weren’t saved properly.  I think they might have gone into the back up file, which I overrode with the current version of my project file upon opening.  * head palm * Ah, well. I’d made the mistake last [...]

Happy Birthday, Raven!!! WOOT! Cold’s still dragging me down.  Still not able to concentrate worth a damn.  Instead, I used today’s work time to transfer documents and research into Scrivener projects.  Wrapped up all the short stories, Slow Movin’ series, and fodder/character sketches.  Also built the technical tables for my future Freya’s Tears space adventure, [...]

Thanks to Fran for reminding me to get a move on and update this site!  LOL!  Seems I’m a total slacker these days (which everyone here knows at this point, I think.) The Sanguire novel is complete.  It went out on April Fool’s Day (no foolin’!) to Daw.  No word yet, but I wasn’t expecting [...]

More convention goodness…  Notes follow the panel descriptions. We Don’t Need Another Hero From Kimball Kinnison to Dylan Hunt, strong-thewed heroes have strode the spaceways, protecting the galaxy from evildoers.  But the trend in contemporary literature is shifting from “heroes” to “protagonists” to “viewpoint characters”.  What are the ways that main characters can be used [...]

Weeeee!  Guess what I’m doing this weekend? Yesterday I spent the morning helping the guys finish the room sets.  Then I spent a good portion of the afternoon attending panels.  I’m going to note the panels and some odds and ends notes here to keep them on file for future reference…  Prepare to be bored… [...]

I’ve created the ship for my space smuggler, Freya’s Tears. It’s based on the RPG Traveller. Finances are in order, the number of crew required, their positions and monthly salaries, etc. Just need names, general descriptions, and personalities. Working on that now. Thanks to Nene, the plot’s pretty well in the bag. Again, I’ll be [...]

At least at the moment. (No collaboration, either, Zero. LOL!) I spent yesterday in hot and heavy emails with my friend, Nene. Her offer to help me figure out a storyline was very kind, and I wasn’t going to let the opportunity pass. Having to put one of my ideas into an email in order [...]

While answering an email, I might have inadvertently come across the reason my production has slowed down so much. . . Outlining. Up until I began writing the Sanguire series, I didn’t do it.  At least not much more than to figure out what should be in the next chapter.  I responded to a mailing [...]

Not much of one, really. Spent yesterday doing some errands and not much else. I have four glorious days off to recoup some of my losses. Woot! Added a link to the left called Recent Interviews. It’s a direct link to an interview I gave Nonny at Evolution. Off to reread Born of Silence edits [...]

Or Words to Describe my Writing These Days. It’s not like the ideas aren’t there. I’ve got a list of over fifty story lines to draw upon for material, ranging in possibilites from short PWPs to a couple of potential trilogies. It’s not like I don’t have a current project to work on. Orphan Maker‘s [...]

Enough About Me #12.5: In Which the Author Provides an Addendum, Allowing His Sources to Speak at Greater Length

Picked up from a link at tamboblog… Enough About Me #12: In Which the Author Learns About Overworked Publicists and Nasty and Often Unrealistic Authors

. . . set in yesterday. I vacuumed, swept and mopped, tidied the living room, played around with the computer network, cleaned up some files, changed icons on some of my documents, added a whole other section to my Cyberpedia on Shadow Plan, wrote two posts for my email RPG . . . And still [...]

At least a little. Finally finished a Slow Movin’ short that’s been on the back burner for awhile – Birthday Gifts. Don’t Read at Work!

Doing a little housekeeping, changing some formats, adding a short or two I’ve forgotten to throw online . . . Dancing was a story I wrote for the At First Blush anthology. Since Fortitude Press folded and I’ve regained the rights to this tale, I thought I’d finally post it for your reading. Don’t read [...]