Agents?

I cleared 30K today! **Happy Dance** Today’s chapter came in at 2457. The fairy kittens are recovering from being accidentally drugged: I picked up Pico and dropped her; her wings fluttered out and she hovered in front of my face, indignant at the mistreatment. Good. She could fly. I repeated the process with Boots and…

So I was up waaaay too late last night waiting for hubby to get home from work up at the mines. The weather has been…wintry…and the visibility was lousy and he didn’t get home till pushing midnight. So we talk for a bit and I head up for bed (while he unwinds with a cup…

From the journal of Author Elizabeth Bear, They Must Need Bears: On exposition: like everything else in writing, it’s a tension, and a line that you will wobble back and forth over a thousand times while you learn your craft. First you will not explain enough. Then you will overcorrect and explain too much. Then,…

Maybe we call this editing. I’m never sure how to define the difference between editing, revising, and rewriting, but I believe I met a rewrite when I was last working on False Perceptions. At least I threw away vast chunks of story and rewrote them. This, however…what I’m doing these days to Marks of Repentance…

After almost two weeks of lolly-gagging around on my vacation (if you believe that, you’ll believe anything; hang around cause I have more lies I could tell you…) I went back to work today. Work for me has a dual purpose. It’s to sell flooring, organize my guys, make customers happy, provide a sounding board…