Writer Tamago

Seven hundred and sixty new words, more or less, about the devil and espionage. Uphill all the way. The spirit is willing, but the spirit is also tired. I like to think of this as a victory over the wave of bureaucracy that was my day. Now I think I will watch The Battleship Potemkin. [...]

The Love Song of Oliver Toddle will appear in the November 16th, 2009 issue of The Absent Willow Review. Cue happy sigh. It's a victory for romantic gnomes who work at automotive garages everywhere. And the Drollerie music post is done. With much maligning of the 60s TV shows of Irwin Allen. Now, onto my [...]

Some writers work better in solitude, pounding out words of deep meaning into their keyboards like the deep thrum of a taiko drum. ...me neither. If you want to join a group of writers supporting a wide variety of writer goals for a month and a half, consider JoNoWriMo, where a lot of very cool [...]

Back in February, Writer Tamago was fortunate to host Fraser Sherman for the Drollerie Press blog tour. Well, Fraser's back, and this time he'll be writing about music. His article will be up September 21st. I wrote an introductory article about Fraser, and I'll hope you'll check out his varied writings and works. Meanwhile, I'll [...]

Maybe you're thinking where's last week's snippet? Last week was all revision, so I have nothing new to give you. I'll see what I can do this week. Writing times for this week 9-14: 7-8:30 (after SF book group) 9-15: 12-3 (My usual afternoon gig) 9-16: 6-8 9-17: 6-8 (Meeting with Cat about squidboy at [...]

How cool is it that three scenes that I thought might be scratched turn out to be usable and full of action if I just reshuffle the cards in the deck? The troll revision is now just shy of 20K words, and having the Widow disappear a child early in chapter five moves the Grant/David [...]

As I was wasted when we returned home last night, I thought I would wait until my head was on a bit straighter to write a better update than the reactive one in my personal journal. The news that we've just received from Bryon's mom over the phone is even more optimistic than yesterday's prognosis. [...]

This topic is going around, and because I wrote a monstrous response over in Jim Hines' website, I reproduce it here. What I want to do is publish, not self publish. My writing goals run more toward those that a publisher can satisfy. I want a better shot at long term staying power. I want [...]

Cross posted from my personal journal... You know those release forms you sign before you go in for surgery? The ones with the horrible things on them that the medical staff will tell you are less risky than the surgery? Those forms are there for a reason. Two weeks ago Bryon's older brother Craig had [...]

The Winter the Troll Danced with Old Nick is now solid at 4 chapters. That said, I just ditched about four scenes which, well, frankly, didn't add much to the story. And I'm going to be writing a great deal of new stuff very shortly. With things happening. Regrettably, I think what this means is [...]