Quoth Og Mandino"Have confidence that this will be the best day of your life." | I am pleased to announce that the first draft (aka the “barf draft”) of Book 3 (aka “The Warlock’s Curse”) has arrived, weighing 70,234 words. It is an extremely ugly and sickly baby, but its mother loves it. I look forward to dressing it up in cute little outfits [...] So I have been trying to come up with some kind of unique spin on sponsoring the writers of the Clarion West Writeathon. I’ve been sponsoring individual writers here and there, but that just feels scattershot. I want to sponsor everyone who is participating, because everyone is awesome. But I also want to [...] 4 in the morning. Up and ready to write. Well, up at least. So now that I’m working on the new duology I’ve made a committment to crank out 1,000 words a day. I’m thinking I need to do like David Levine, get myself a calendar and some shiny gold stars. There’s nothing [...] Jeezum Crow, this October has become one hectic month for yours truly! Lots of client work, prepping for World Fantasy at the end of the month, sewing that damn purple dress (next time I start a costuming project, someone just shoot me, please?) And then, on top of it all, I’ve actually been writing [...] Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...] | |