2,779 words today… Um, except those words were for Empress of Dorsa rather than Soldier. (I would share it with you but it contains Soldier of Dorsa spoilers.) I’m doing that thing again where I procrastinate on my main project by working on another. But I suppose it’s okay… I Read more…
Total words written today: 0 (but I won’t stay at zero). Manuscript total: 121,884. About 80,000 words to go. I’m often caught between the sentiments, “I waste too much time doing stupid things” and “Everyone needs some down-time.” I’m a firm believer in self-care, but I also believe that there Read more…
I feel super honored this month that Reverie was chosen as The Lesbian Review’s book club September book. I joined this Facebook group because I was invited to join in order to discuss Reverie, but now that I’m there, I might stick around for discussions of other books. Anyway, the Read more…
I’ve only written 565 words today. That’s kind of sorry, and I won’t let myself finish the day like that. It’s only 5:30pm — that gives me a good four hours to get that number up before bedtime. (UPDATE: I’m finishing the day at 1,215 words and 92,718 total for Read more…
662 words so far today — my intention is to write more, but I also promised the gf I would help her set up her classroom today. Manuscript total: 76,314. Building this novel out, one brick at a time. 10:16am update — up to 3,413 words, 79,065 total. The number Read more…
It’s July 4th. Let me wave my miniature American flag to show how grateful I am to live in the land of the free. Oh, wait. I don’t have a mini-flag. And even if I did, I might not wave it. While I am grateful for being born in this Read more…
Alright, so here’s a question for everyone: What defines lesbian fiction? For the month of December, I teamed up with three other lesbian writers (two of us with full-length novels already published; one of us published in a few literary journals; the last of us an aspiring novelist) who promised Read more…
I’m dubbing today No Excuses Saturday. It sounds really good but fails to take into account that I woke at 7am and promptly laid in bed for almost three hours (yes, you read that correctly, I said “almost THREE HOURS”) listening to an audiobook and playing a sort of updated Read more…
I feel like I should be singing some Britney Spears — “Oops, I did it again.” I’ve written before about the dicey position of writing about race while white. But when I’ve written characters of color before, the issues they’ve faced around racism have always been an important but tangential Read more…
I wanted to wish you a happy Pride… which I realize I’m a little late with. Pride Weekend came and went July 14 and 15th here in San Diego. From what I hear, San Diego Pride is one of the biggest, coolest, most awesomest Pride celebrations in the country. But, Read more…