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A Month of Words
Starting tomorrow, I’m back! Nanowrimo begins at midnight tonight and I’m ready to do my first intense month of novel writing since 2009. I started doing Nanowrimo in 2001 with my first novel, Pray...
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Day 1 – A Pitch in Time
And so it begins. It’s 3 PM and I have 1885 words written. That’s a prologue, Chapter One (three scenes), and one scene of Chapter Two. I was surprisingly anxious about beginning, but found it neither...
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Day 2 – Scrivener
Two days in and all seems fresh and full of potential. I did have trouble getting started today. Not serious trouble. Once I decided it was time, I buckled down and just did it. But I certainly didn’t...
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Day 3 – The Fun Part
photo courtesy of practicalowl Yesterday, my MC was walking home from her job, exhausted and worried, when she suddenly decided to climb a tree. They are huge trees with low, sturdy, spreading...
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Day 4 – Getting to the Point
courtesy of |Chris| Today, I could not get to The Point. I planned on writing the MC’s Fateful Decision. That point at which she makes a decision that will forever change her life and set up the...
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Day 5 – Showing Character
from Astute GraphicsToday, my main character showed her character. Up to now, she’s been more self-involved and confused than anything else—for good reasons—but, that had to change. Even though she...
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The Pitch
After posting about “the pitch” for my novel-in-progress earlier last month, I thought I should share what I came up with. Finally got this the way I wanted it around the end of the first week of...
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Recipe for Revision
courtesy of liquene For the last week or so, I’ve been working on the novel I wrote in November during NaNoWriMo. Today I admitted to myself, that while effort has been expended [passive voice has been...
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No Place to Hide
We needed a downstairs bathroom in our old house, so my husband Barry is building it. He worked as a carpenter when he was a young man and has kept up his skills, but because it isn’t something he...
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Stretch Goals
Today, looking back at only two subs in January, I wondered why I had the impression of having been unusually productive since the first of the year. Then I remembered: one of those subs was a novel....
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The Age We Are
When I hear younger writers talking about how they wasted their youth or are too old to do what they want, I find myself tsk, tsking—as old people do. Hah. But more so, it reminds me that we all feel...
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Pre-order Now: Futuristica Vol. 1
The folks at Metasagas Press have announced that Futuristica, Volume 1 is ready for pre-orders in all the usual formats. My story “Hu.man & Best” is right there between those covers somewhere....
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20 Years of Canadian SpecFic
Blood and Water, by Bundoran Press Editor Hayden Trenholm, is just one of ten finalist and award-winning titles available for a limited time in the Aurora Awards Bundle from StoryBundle. From the...
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Another FunBundle!
And while I’m talking funbundles (not the kind the cable companies want you to think are “fun,” but aren’t), check out the new site BundleRabbit. They are currently offering The Middlings Bundle, a...
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Tesseracts Twenty!
Super-happy to have a story in Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela, edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner. This promises to be a wonderful addition to this all-Canadian series that’s been on-going...
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Fallow
For a field to be fallow means that it’s already been plowed. To be plowed, means to have been prepared. So, prepared, but not seeded. Some definitions say “unseeded.” And—getting at what I like—this:...
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Futuristica Vol 1
It’s out! Futuristica: Vol 1 by Metasagas Press is available online in print and ebook versions. This 359 page anthology of science fiction has nineteen stories chosen from over 650 submissions. There...
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“Bedroom Community” in FSM!
I woke up to this lovely review of one of my favourite stories this morning. I’m delighted that it’s just been published in Issue 13 of Fantasy Scroll Magazine—my second story with this magazine....
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I’m Back
This site has been down for months, but I am back. It’s been a year of health issues, surgeries, recoveries and distressing world events that kept me from prioritizing online visibility. But with the...
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Compostela
About the title of this anthology: For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the...
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