I really need to get some hands-on, eyes-on research done for SILVER ON THE ROAD, but was stymied because, while I am perfectly capable of traipsing off to a foreign country where I don’t speak the language fluently on my own for a week or two, so long as I can rely on mass transit, […]
ROAD TRIP! (maybe) Read More »
So this was the weekend I had blocked out to do a hard run on SILVER. Â Friday afternoon I laid in supplies (ready-to-eat meals and several bottles of wine), updated Anti-Social, and took a declared Twitter-cation for 48 hours. And then I set to work. Saturday morning I walked down to the farmer’s market before
State of the Meerkat: A Retreat without Retreating Read More »
Some people can write five or six or ten thousand words in a day, and suffer no ill effects. Some people are pleased if they manage a thousand. There’s no ideal speed (so long as you hit your deadline) and the writer who goes at a slow and steady pace is no better a writer,
Words Are as Words Will Read More »
Which is harder than it seems/should be. Â What do you leave in? Â What do you take out? Â How many versions do you have? Â (some places have a 100 words requirement, others 250, some 500…) What do you want to see in a bio? Â How far out do you want to know about upcoming books/how old
working on a new bio…. Read More »
For newcomers: the wordwar room is an online co-writing session, wherein convivial peer pressure (in 30 and 60 minute ‘wars’) makes the words happen.  Also the griping, whinging, and idea-testing.  The room runs 24/7, with members across the globe. Any serious-about-it writer is welcome to join us. ——————- Ideas are easy. Execution is where you
Weekend Wisdom (?) from the Wordwar Room…. Read More »
So, remember a while back I was talking about that thing that made me Very Happy, but I couldn’t talk about it? I can talk about it now. Â Laura Anne Gilman’s SILVER ON THE ROAD, launching The Devil’s West series, the story of a sixteen-year-old growing up in the Devil’s Territory, west of the newly-formed
Exhales, inhales, lets out the news… Read More »
I’ve returned to the WiP and can confirm that if it does not love me just yet (after the month hiatus) it is still very fond of me and is willing work work together to make things right again. Me? I still adore it. Even when it makes me crazy. ——- In other writing news,
Saddle Up, Saddle Up! Read More »
Yesterday I spent mostly putting out various fires. Today, I’m gathering kindling. No doubt, by Monday, I’ll be putting out fires again. Somewhere in there I suppose is also carry water… Today is Team Kornetsky, working on the revisions to Gin & Tonic #3, which will NOT be called DOGHOUSE. Unless it is. It’s the
from mb_galleycat at Most Authors Make Less Than $1,000 a Year: DBW “The majority of authors make less than $1,000 a year, according to a new report from Digital Book World. Almost 80% of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year, according to the report. A little more than 40
In which practical meerkat has a few words about money, writing, and freelancing Read More »
This is a story about a story. Â But it’s more than that. Somewhere in early 2012, I’d started working on a story, set in the same universe as my short stories “Crossroads” and “The Devil’s Jack” (forthcoming in DEAD MAN’S HAND). Â But about three thousand words in, I realized that there was more here than
“I am terrified, but I’m not afraid” (a writing year in review) Read More »