Writer Tamago

About 11 pages into chapter 4. Really working on that kid dynamic. I'll post at workshop as soon as I'm done here. Also, had a graphics designer in today to talk about stationery and website. Now I have to get him some copy together, and talk to ye old web hoster about posting it for [...]

A friend who is working on her own publication has an agent wanting to see her first hundred pages. VERY nice! Go, SQ workshop. Go, Julie! And I've just read through the first three chapters of Substance of Shadows, and yeah, it's good and like it was before. The soul of it is still there. [...]

Suggested chapter 1-3 revisions done. Tomorrow I work on chapter 4 from the brief beginning I have made, until it is done. Won't get to it until tomorrow evening, but there you go. That's the plan. Catherine

I've outlined through chapter 10 in the new version of Substance of Shadows. It looks like 2 chapters will have to be pretty new, and the rest are actually revisable. This should get us through Esme and Errol's trials. I'm all about preserving the feel of the first book. I've come up with some replacement [...]

...is a balding 40ish science teacher with eyes the color of rainy day heaven and a smile that recreates the universe each time he uses it. He's not a writer, but my Bryon is a great plotter, and yesterday, while walking, and talking over my tension problem with my kids in the book, he said, [...]

I feel like I'm slicing up a baby. Mine. The first version of SoS was pretty good, and I sometimes feel like I'm cutting out the heart of it. Makes me wonder what kind of editor I'll actually be of my own material when the time comes for publication. The outlining process through chapter 10 [...]

I began chapter 4 yesterday. Over the last several days I've had some plot epiphanies bubble up through the gumbo of my subconscious, and so I've decided that my project for this week will be to outline the book. I'm hoping for about 400-450 pages in about 20 chapters. I know that the average first [...]

Right. Done torturing Amanda, and Errol's had a little conversation. Only one more outtake to write, and that will be the big climax of the story outtake. I'll go back to it after I've worked a bit on chapter 4, let it stew just a bit. I also have some editing to do for chapter [...]

The Amanda outtakes will not die! The end is in sight, but there's a lot to write there. I hope some of this stuff is useable later. It's pretty cruel, but it's not poorly written, and could be adapted under miserable circumstances (for the characters!), Cath

I am about to work on the Amanda scenes a bit more, but before I do that, I wanted to report that I have puzzled out the structure of chapter 4. At the Christmas party, the following must happen: Moira, Milo, Amanda, and Errol must royally torque Ma'at off, so that he decides they will [...]