This is a really fast update between meetings — I just received mail from Tekno books, letting me know that Sony Reader wants to buy the electronic rights to one of my stories. (The story “Obsessions” in the collection, “In the Shadow of the Wall.”) Other big news — we had a substitute yoga teacher […]
Yes, it’s Tuesday. That means Tuesday night tea and writing! Tonight, I’d like to finish chapter 15. I got about halfway through it this weekend. This chapter requires a lot of rewriting, every section, in fact. Plus, every time I get into a section I realize that it’s spawning additional rewrites in other chapters that
So, no Tuesday night tea for me last night. After coming back from San Francisco I came down with a cold. I’m a little better today, but still, not 100%. It’s been hard, being sick like this with the new day job, *needing* to be at my best and yet not being able to. On
I’m in San Francisco this week for initial training for the new job. BUSY. So busy I don’t even have time to check my email during the day. But it’s also fun. So much to learn! And great new geeky toys. I’m loving it. However, I’m also really tired. I slept through my alarm this
The rewrites stalled a little this week, then today, picked up again. On Tuesday I hit chapter ten, a chapter where I had to do a lot of rewriting. The actual putting words on a page wasn’t what was slowing me down. It was the figuring out which words to put down. The characterization of
The rewrites are going well. I finished with Oracle/PeopleSoft on Friday. Had a lot of mixed emotions. But I also had a huge sense of relief. I was free! Free! Well — at least for a week or so, before the new job started. So I went out for cocktails with some friends, I made
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Today is my last day with Oracle/PeopleSoft. I’m sad, relieved, happy — just a whole bunch of things. This post is mostly for those who might be checking out my blog (LJ) for the first time. Welcome! There is a lot of blather about the most recent novel here, and not much else I’m afraid.
People up for a Tuesday night writer’s thing? I’m deep into rewrites, so will be at the tea shop early, probably. I need access to the electric outlet. And yes, I will be replacing this machine with one that has a real battery sometime soon. In other news, the servers at work now block access
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I’ve finished the rewrites on the prologue and chapter one so far. I’ve changed the one character’s back story, as well as his characterization, quite a bit from the first draft. I knew that I would need to. He didn’t really make himself known to me until much later in the novel, where he stood