Writer Tamago

Death by Drowning, re-titled Point River has been sent off to Abyss and Apex. Yup, flash fiction. Who knew? But that's what it wanted to be. Dinner. Novel. Book Group. Little Dorrit? Catherine

It's Monday, and what that usually means is true this Monday: vampires versus belle dames at Las Habladoras' Blood is Thicker than Water! *** It's Monday, and what that usually doesn't mean is an announcement about my novella, but here's one anyway: Needles and Bones comes out as early as Thursday. This means that it'll [...]

At this point in The Winter the Troll Danced with Old Nick, there are a lot of characters with a lot of motivations. A lot of things are going on. I've decided to get organized. I'm pulling each character's story out linearly. After I've followed the line of action of each character through the first [...]

It's been a while in coming. I've updated my To Do list. Clearly, I'm not alternating with the Monte Cristo novel. I'm focusing on The Winter the Troll Danced with Old Nick and making some progress. The Monte Cristo novel will come once the Troll story is circulating. I am kicking out the short story [...]

I wussed out, I must admit. I was having some trouble focusing on the early part one of the story, so I went and wrote some of the particularly vivid scenes from part 2 that have been floating around in my mind. This means that tomorrow I get to finish a Magdalene and Grant sword [...]

This is about reading. An important aspect of writing is reading for a variety of reasons. I've been thinking about my reading lately, and the choices available to me. Here are the extremes. 1. X is hot. Let's publish everything we can about X, because readers will buy it. X in this equation equals vampires, [...]

This is my ONE day of vacation between the spring and the summer semester, so I'm trying to squeeze a lot of life out it. I'm with the Iowa City writers group in the Java House Coffee shop, trying to get warmed up again. It's slow going. I started writing two scenes that pretty much [...]

And here I am in the language lab, ready to schmooze. This will be the last post of the day. Tonight I'm off to Sarah's reading and signing. In about an hour and half. I'm grateful for a chance to get caught up some. Here's my favorite line bit of dialogue from the godmother debate. [...]

Another 45 minutes, and we get some more words. What I'm learning today is interesting. Maybe the reason the Hercules novel was easy to write wasn't the structure. Maybe it was the ability to write all day. Once I was warmed up this morning, I managed to get in some hefty word count, and when [...]

I dunno...maybe I should write a journal entry as a sort of warm up to my novel writing more regularly. I have lots of good progress today that I think I can use. Started my day with an interpersonal scene between Quartz and Siegfried, which was...complex. This led me to think of some solid Quartz [...]