Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
In June I’m supposed to talk with the publishers of Seven Archangels: Annihilation and discuss the future of Seven Archangels: An Arrow In Flight and Seven Archangels: Sacred Cups. In prep for that, I rewrote one of the sections of…
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Remember my literary pause? Well, the time has come to stop editing because ♥My Book♥ has turned into :(My Book 🙁 . Yep, that point in time has come when I’m convinced the whole thing is a pile of garbage. It’s…
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Someone said the difference between being psychotic and being a writer is very narrow indeed. Some people hear voices and are locked up, and others hear voices and write their stories. In the last three weeks, I’ve realized I “channel”…
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Between January 10th and April 10th, I wrote the complete first draft of ♥My Book♥. Next comes the editing. If you’ve noticed in the sidebar, I’ve had a little tracking bar giving information about my word count. I’d set myself a goal…
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I’m at that point in writing ♥My Book♥ which always takes me by surprise and which, to be honest, shouldn’t. It’s the point where I fear dying. I have no idea if other writers do this too, but at some point or…
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I had to take a second literary pause from ♥My Book♥ because the publisher of my Christmas novella wanted pre-edits. The pre-edits took three or four days. The first day, I was able to write my thousand words for the day anyhow,…
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We all know that the Chinese character for “crisis” is composed of the characters for “danger” and “opportunity,” which is great except for the fact that it’s absolutely false. But I had a minor crisis in my writing last week…
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I’ve hit that point in ♥My Book♥ where I’m going to slow down. I’ve done 43,000 words in about 40 days. It’s nice progress for me, about half a novel. I’m a seat-of-the-pants writer, meaning I give folks like Amy Deardon heart…
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I’ve mentioned that ♥My New Book♥ is about a string quartet. I’ve been reading up on violins and listening to a course on chamber music so I can actually talk about things with some clarity. I’m plotting and researching and writing…
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Well, here’s a quickie update on my alter-ego the writer, such as she is: I got a novella accepted! Lilley Press has accepted my Christmas novella “The Boys Upstairs” for release this November. I nearly didn’t even submit it to…
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