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“Happiness hit her like a train on a track.”
It’s been awhile since I updated, and there’s a good reason for that: right now, everything in my life is going ridiculously well. That’s great for me, but not so good for interesting blog posts. But here I am anyway. … Continue reading
“The time is right to make your waves, so make them.”
Or, how I got an agent, part two. Previously, there was this contest on a really awesome blog, the first 250 words of my novel caught the eye of Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency, and she ended … Continue reading
“Don’t let your feet touch ground, and don’t look down.”
Or, how I got an agent, part one. Maybe I should back up: I have an agent! Recently, I accepted an offer of representation from the amazing Ammi-Joan Paquette at the Erin Murphy Literary Agency. I am ridiculously excited. For … Continue reading
Writing and efficiency, part 2: goals, accountability, and mindfulness
Several people left very interesting comments on my previous post about writing and efficiency. (Thanks, everyone!) In particular, Susanna linked to a post on the SFWA blog, “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a … Continue reading
On writing and efficiency
The first draft of To Disturb the Universe, aka the protospace novel–which was 72,000 words long at that point–took me two and a half years to finish. That’s a long time. Granted, that was a relatively tumultuous period in my … Continue reading
“Sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you used to live.”
First, the good news: as most of the people who actually read my blog probably know from Facebook, I got a job! I’ll be an economic research assistant at a health care consulting firm, which is pretty much exactly what … Continue reading
“The future is before you. Ready to be hacked.”
After pitiful gchat statuses, even more pitiful Facebook updates, and still more pitiful flailing in the direction of friends and critique partners, I finally entered a story in the Dell Awards for the last time in my life. I’m not … Continue reading
“All that matters to me is the work.”
There’s a certain scenario that I’ve been imagining for… oh, several weeks now. In the scheme of things, this scenario is not that bad. I would have a place to live and food to eat, and people who care about … Continue reading
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Tagged protospace, waiting, what do we say to the god of death?
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Markets cheat sheet update, 12/22/11
Several updates to the speculative fiction markets cheat sheet today. The biggest news is that Lightspeed and Fantasy are merging, and so Lightspeed will publish both science fiction and fantasy stories now (although the same total number of stories will … Continue reading
Notes from the writing life
I will make this story worthy of the Dells this year. Things that are awesome about this story: the ending, the setting, maybe some other stuff. Things that make no freaking sense: the curse and, by extension, the plot. Things … Continue reading