Should I keep calling it the “lockdown” progress report? We’re not technically in lockdown anymore in California, despite the governor re-instituting restrictions for some counties. Total words: 0 (but I have a good reason!)Manuscript total: 75,492 (yes, that’s the exact same count as the last update) I desperately want to Read more…
1,102 words. Manuscript total: 72,553. Back in May, after drafting over 75,000 words, I decided I didn’t like what I had written and threw away everything to start over again. It’s taken me three months, but I’m finally almost back to where I was. You might be wondering, did I Read more…
Fifty-thousand words in, and I still haven’t managed to hit the 25% mark, which means this book is due to be about 200,000 words. Where’s that grimace emoji, again?? Ah, yes, I found it. “One-hundred and twenty-thousand words,” I told myself. “Hit your 25% mark by 30,000 words,” I told Read more…
Hello, everyone! How was the first week of May for you? With my self-imposed NaNoWriMo deadlines plus graduate school heating up, mine has been as busy as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. I don’t have much to say other than that this week, so let’s just cut to Read more…
Well, y’all, I had a week of both self-discovery and serious self-doubt. We’ll start with the self-discovery part, and in the interest of efficiency, I’m going to copy and paste a portion of the email I sent to my writing group this past weekend: I have had a major revelation 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…
The project I’m currently working on (beta title: The Redevelopment of Drea and Kasey) has a lot of bits and pieces of my own experiences woven into it. In particular, the suburbs. THE SUBURBS. I’m sorry, but don’t you think suburbia is a little bit the Twilight Zone? Amiright? When 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…
Hello there! I just turned in a long novella for a collection of holiday-themed short stories and novellas that will be coming out this fall / winter. Other authors in the collection include lesfic best-sellers like A. E. Radley, Giselle Fox, Nicolette Dane, Em Stevens, Miranda MacLeod, and a handful Read more…
Okay. I know I owe you all an apology. For a while, I’d been writing along at a nice clip, publishing new chapters for you every week. Then I missed a week. Then I caught up. Then I missed… a lot of weeks. Here are my excuses: 1) I got Read more…