Now Available!

My short story "Menagerie" is now available for reading at The Sword Review:

http://www.TheSwordReview.com

Go check it out!

The English

This quote made me giggle. Twice. So I had to clip it:

"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers." -- Raymond Chandler

Betraying the Fans ...

This reminds me of something I heard Orson Scott Card say about fans who complain that movie studios have "ruined" a book with their terrible versions. His simple response? "The book is still there."

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1752.html

Food for thought, in any case.

Staying Sane

This was said by Allison Janney, best known (at least, to me) for the role of CJ on The West Wing:

(on staying sane and happy) "Dogs tether you to the earth in some really good way. And exercise, of course. And martinis. And sexy high heels. That's it. Good work, a nice pair of heels, a martini, a dog and a man - not necessarily in that order." - as quoted in the magazine Living Fit

Found this on IMDB, and for some reason it struck a chord.

Nanowrimo

When, at about mid-day yesterday, I had only written about 800 words, I decided that perhaps Nanowrimo wasn't in the stars for me this year. Well, I missed it last year and I'm badly out of practice with long spates of writing so ... last night happened.

Three thousand words later, I'm only a little over one thousand words in the hole for today - that's all I need to accomplish to be "on schedule" - and the novel is clear before me ... at least, until I hit the POV change after chapter four. Then the story goes into journal mode (at which point it starts *earning* the title "Journal of the Dead") and ... we shall see.

I'm very psyched about this. I've been planning to work on this novel since the spring, when I finished Flow. Second edit for that project is due after the Nano period - I don't honestly expect to finish this work by then, as I don't know where it's going as of yet and, with several interwoven "substories" planned in the back of my head, it's not going to be short. 100 - 120 thousand is not unreasonable as a vague estimate.

Now if only I hadn't been awakened by drilling at 8am.

Who has construction work done in a residential area at 8am on a Saturday morning?

Stories

Pop over to http://www.Byzarium.com now and check out "In The Home of The Gods!"

And please ... be gentle with the rotten tomatoes.

Also! Direct your browsers to: http://www.Reflectionsedge.com, where "Coldsnap" has just gone up ...