Writer Tamago

Another 3 chapters. Three more to go. Also, a study guide, and a power point/presentation prep for next week. To celebrate, I'm going to clean the kitchen. Catherine

And then...chapters 4 and 5 of HH:PW were edited. Those two chapters are very meat and potatoes now. Lots happens. Muzzly now. Must stop to watch Code Geass. No, really. Catherine

Okay, so I didn't make the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinals, and that's cool. BUT There is some exciting news. My friend Julie K. Rose did! And honestly, given the panel of judges, I can see why. It's exactly the kind of book these esteemed judges write. I'm luckier than most of you. I've gotten to [...]

It's a cheeky little headache today, but not a migraine, so we are slowly getting the junk out of the system! I've been playing at being a writer today, and I've finished editing the first three chapters of Hulk Hercules. I've also managed to get the next installment of Blood up! Now, to finish up [...]

If this is the shape of things, I want to go back to work. You might know that I have GERD, or acid reflux disease. Occasionally this causes me trouble. It caused me the mother of all trouble I've had with it thus far Friday night, and although I guessed I was dealing with gastritis, [...]

FYI--I'm not sure how much I'll be around next week, because I get to play all week at being a writer (HH:PW edits, dontcha know). I may weigh in with boring old progress reports, or I may just show up with a finito at the end. Or I may come every day for sanity breaks. [...]

I am very excited to show you the cover of the collection that you will find Sister Night, Sister Moon in--Things That Go Bump in the Night by George Cotronis. The collection will be available with various other anthologies over the next few weeks. Check out the official Drollerie Press Release! While I can't promise [...]

Cultural Appropriation Question: Does it strike anyone else as ironic that a bunch of U.S. citizens who have regular access to the Internet are talking about cultural appropriation, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation? Given the following information: 1. The average impoverished person in the U.S. is better off than the average [...]

Jennifer Jackson links to two interesting places today, and I can't resist. There's More than One Measure of Success as a Writer by Patrick Ness, suggesting that enjoyment alone is enough reason to write, and maybe unpublished writers are also writers? and Best Thing about Writing? Money by Allison Flood in which Colm Toibin suggests [...]

...a new word bought on by a combination of my head cold and teaching A Handmaid's Tale to the students (prayvaganza, anyone?) So. The edits for HH:PW inch along. I just shut down an accelerated literature class last night, so that's going to help me get the edits and the study guide completed. Happily, I [...]