I think like plotting more than prose. I love, love, love making bulleted lists about a story’s plot and what is happening, putting in details about what the characters are feeling and their motivations, designing exciting moments in their lives and then arranging them in order with little “connector” points showing how they drift from […]
Unfathomable
Why do cats love the crap around your house and not the cat toys you pay $7.99 for? My cats, Jinx and Max Powers, aren’t so good for snuggling. Jinx is grumpy and bitey. Petting her is just a bloodletting. Max is a coward. You can’t get close enough to pet him 90% of the time. […]
Potions Class
Sometimes, when I am tired, I make myself a little concotion I call “wake-up juice”. In the vein of Coke Blak, it is a combination of 30% cold coffee and 70% Diet Coke. No additional sweetner. Extra caffeine and none of the sugar! But if I’m feeling REALLY crazy, I toss in a shot of Kaluha. It’s […]
My New Life
The last couple of weeks have been interesting, as I try to adjust to the complete change in lifestyle that has come with quitting my job to write full time. My last “official” day was Oct. 31, and then I packed up and went to the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs for four days. Then I […]
Post-Manuscript Depression
Well, it’s done. At some ungodly hour last night, I sent out the final draft of The Painted Man to my publisher. There will still be line edits and copy edits and queries and printer proofs and Crom only knows what else before it goes to press, so there will likely be plenty of chances […]