This morning I kicked my houseguest to the curb (okay, I put her in a cab) and returned to the usual schedule of All Book All Day. Second pass on this book is…different. I’m not changing actual scenes, but instead adding or subtracting lines to support other elements elsewhere in the book, and/or changing details […]
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Some of them possibly even coherent. As a prelude to the release of DEAD MAN’S HAND, John Joseph Adams interviewed several of the contributors about their stories, their influences, and why they wrote what they did…. mine’s here, if you’re interested.
In which the author has a few words… Read More »
To you, anyway. Â To me it’s marked in blood, coffee rings, and inky fingers. Gin & Tonic #4 is a Draft, as of Tuesday. It’s an ugly, messy draft, but it has a beginning, a middle, an ending, and a through-line, so there’s that, and I still have a few weeks to polish it to
The Progress Invisible… Read More »
Before I start to whine, let me say that being able to write in two genres (mystery and fantasy) is like getting the perfect hot fudge sundae and being PAID to eat it: it’s really hard to complain. But some day, please the scheduling gods, I will have more than six weeks between book deadlines?
this is the kind of problem I hate to whinge about, but…. Read More »
Yesterday’s bounty: 2K new words on the mystery, and a revelation in the backbrain about revisions to be done on the fantasy, plus some long-range promo work done for DEAD MAN’S HAND which you can get your own hands on in 12 days…. and I declutterd the office, which after three days of rain was starting to remind me
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After Monday’s “think it through without actually thinking about it” phase, Tuesday saw 3K new words get laid down, and a clear idea of where the next chapter’s going. I don’t know if I’ll get another 3k today, but it’s not going to be a stop-and-stare day, so it’s all a win. Mystery writing is,
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I woke up yesterday morning thinking “the bit in the outline is no longer the bit that should happen.” Â Frustration occurred. Â And I wrote about a hundred words of a new bit, and then stared at the screen and thought “well, what do I do with that, then?” And then I was distracted by a
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Reaching for a research note this morning, my elbow hit the edge of my coffee mug. Coffee spilled EVERYWHERE…. except onto my laptop. *waits for heart to resume normal operations*
children, fools, and writers on deadline… Read More »
For those who’ve read the earlier Gin & Tonic books, I’m pleased to say that Agent Asuri is back. And she and Ginny are just as much fun to write in-conversation as ever. “I know that you would not interfere with a police investigation. And I know that you have at least enough sense to
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For those who might be interested… In an earlier post, I outlined the predicted structure of SILVER ON THE ROAD, as follows: Part 1: Flood Part 2: The Road Part 3: A Magician Part 4: Bones and Stone Part 5: Silver on the Road Part 6: Spanish Flu Part 7: The Dust Roads As of
Reordering The Actions Read More »