Writer Tamago

Took a day off Monday. Seemed like by the time I finished work and exercise, the umph wasn't there. Today, I teach all day, so this one will be a no go as well. I will have a great deal of time to write tomorrow, as Bryon has parent teacher conferences, and I will write. [...]

Spent yesterday and will spend today working on outtake scenes from previous incarnation of story for fans of that version. It's a lot of Amanda stuff. I wouldn't mind getting to an Errol scene that's on tap too, but we'll see. The Amanda stuff was pretty adrenaline laden when I first conceived of it, and [...]

Have integrated all the changes from the past three months into Substance of Shadows the first two chapters, and into Gossamer and Viridian the first three chapters. Now we wait on some feedback to chapter 3 of SoS. I have an outtake to write, and then we move on to plotting chapter 4. Catherine

Here's how all that worked out.

Chapter 3 of Substance of Shadows is done, and will be posted at the fiction workshop tomorrow. I think I'll post the Shari Pitch meets Errol Klarion scene for folks as well. Tomorrow I will spend making suggested changes to chapters 1 and 2 of Substance of Shadows and fixing up a few suggestions for [...]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through chapter 3. I'll finish and polish it up, post it at the workshop, and a couple more outtakes after. Catherine

Lisa pointed out that Neil Gaiman had a huge article in his blog today on writers and agenting, and that he sited Teresa Nielsen Hadyn's advice. I wanted to copy all that information in here for myself so, when the time is right, I can read up on this. I so wanted to be able [...]

Scenes from chapter 3 that I promised last night. This is almost all the pipe I have to lay before I can let the story unfold.

Revised the scene that introduces Welkins; began the Hamwich scene. Will post all of this, revised, tomorrow. I knew I would miss huge tracks of time! Only wrote for about an hour today. Tuesdays I probably won't get to write, since I teach all day and all night, so expect me to do a little [...]

The joy of telling a story sometimes is really what you need. As I've begun to write chapter 3, it's coming together. Changes you should know: Suki Chai = Moira Stevens Circe Gelasia = Sara Wolf Amanda, Moira, and Sara meet Errol and Stephanus in chapter 3. The inference is that Errol knows Amanda from [...]