Writer Tamago

On Saturday, I posted about zero drafting. Logically, the next thing to talk about would be the actual first drafting. Conventional wisdom dictates that you write the first draft. It may seem odd to you that we have to even say that, but there are writers out there who don't write. I doubt very much [...]

There is one great thing about this darned troll story--it has caused me to think about my writing process. I'm also teaching Composition One for the last time this summer, and that's caused me to think about what I'm telling my students about composing. I've been getting really reflective. One of the things I do [...]

Thank you all for the birthday wishes yesterday. I spent most of my birthday in meetings for the glory of the college, and every one of them ran late. Bryon took me out for dinner and dessert, and darned if that didn't take some time too. And well, I won't talk about afterwards, but yes, [...]

I like the birthdays with fives and zeros. This particular birthday has the bonus of being divisible by 9, which happens only, say, every 9 years. I also finished O-Taga-San last night. A little polishing, and it'll be ready to go out. I have to admit, I feel pretty good this birthday. My lost weight [...]

I've been working on a short story that someone has invited me to send for an anthology. The working title is Kitsune Girl, but it will probably end up being called O-Taga-San. This is kind of cool, using my familiarity with Japanese culture in a very different way. And it's stretching me. The relationships in [...]

Urgh. I enjoyed the Aqueduct Reading Sunday morning, although I am sure I looked like Victorian zombie (actually, any era zombie.) Before the reading, I had breakfast with Kathryn Sullivan. At Aqueduct, great readings. Suzy Charnas read from Dorothea Dreams. Eleanor Arnasson read from Tomb of the Fathers. Andrea Hairston read from her upcoming Redwood [...]

The previous occupant of our room left the alarm set for 5:30 am. As the alarm went off, I reassured Lisa it wasn't me as I scrambled for the alarm in a sleepy stupor, and after a few comments we went back to sleep until, for me, about 6:30. Off to the exercise room for [...]

This has been one crazy week. Every time I turn around, there is some life or work task that is keeping me from doing about anything. I've been asked to submit a story to an anthology (nothing definite, just an invite), the deadline is the 15th, and I really need to find some time to [...]

There will be two Wiscon posts this year, and rather than doing them chronologically, I'm going to do them thematically. This year, I felt very much like two people at Wiscon. First-time author Cath, who flitted around socially and went to readings gets the frivolous Wiscon post. Deep-thinking Cath who went to readings that she [...]

Card Captor Sakura fans may recognize the magical command in the subject line. I should have written this yesterday, because yesterday was the official release day of Hulk Hercules! But my day job had other ideas, so it's the post-official release day of Hulk Hercules. You could celebrate by...either cleaning out the royal stables, or [...]