Shannon

Bought yogurt. Did two loads of laundry. Folded and put away said laundry, plus all the remaining spoor from my trip north. Cooked zucchini-feta pancakes. Ate same. Oh and…..FINISHED OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS!!!! ZOMG, I finished a novel tonight. It was the weirdest thing. I knew I was close–I didn’t know I was THAT […]

Well, lookie there, another three months have gone by. And what have I done? -Sold three stories (two of them collaborative) and an article. -Attended WorldCon, Foolscap, a writing retreat, and the King Tut exhibit. -Read my story “By the Sea” before a packed house at the Grants Pass anthology release. -Finished editing NIGHTCRAFT MOTHER

My short story “The Hippie Monster of Eel River” has been accepted for the Apex Book Company’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE URBAN KIND anthology. Yay! This gives me the opportunity to work once more with the lovely and talented editor Jennifer Brozek, about which I am so pleased. And, this is a particularly interesting milestone

Back to writing. I went four days without writing. Gah! But, 2,000 words tonight; and, in looking at the outline, I see that I am quite close to the end of this thing. I mean, I knew that I was fairly close; but wow, there’s like the scene that I’m in, and then one more

1. Not So Bad. My dreaded return to the Day Jobbe was fairly minorly stressful and busy–much less crazy than I expected. Sure, there were loads of emails and my inbox was full and all that, but that’s normal. The bosses were stressed out, but pretty much not to do with me. Boss Man, already

Yeah so I drove 650 miles today. Like I did 10 or so days ago. Here’s what was different: -Getting up earlier really helped, I think (though I’m nearly dead on my feet right now). I didn’t end up pulling out of Nuevo Rancho Lake until 5:15, due to the whole packing-the-car thing again–complicated by

I don’t know where I am. Okay, yeah, I’m in Portland, I know that. But this morning I was in Seattle (or, Redmond), and tomorrow I’m driving to San Francisco, and Friday we drove up to Seattle (or, Redmond), and, well, it’s feeling very drive-ish in my universe right now. Where, for the week leading

Boy, am I thinking about process a lot this week. Wonder if it has anything to do with all the writing I’ve been doing, and how my very soul is not being sucked out by the Day Jobbe. Huh. Funny that. So today’s process-thinking is all the way down at the sentence level. And it

OUR LADY crossed 100,000 words today…she now stands at 101,747, after yet another 3K day. (Oh I LIKE not working!) Progress is very good; I have officially entered the All Hell Breaks Loose part of the story, with lots of action and drama and blood and shouting and all that fun stuff. I have also

“Embers,” a short story collaboratively written with Jay Lake, sold to Norilana Books for the anthology LACE AND BLADE 3, to appear Valentine’s Day 2010. Yay!