It probably took the protagonist 10,000 words too many, and they will all be cut by my co-author (if he’s as smart as he usually is, anyway), but: she has now seen the clue that was the whole reason for this insanely divergent digression, and now the plot can begin moving forward again as planned. […]

First Quarter, 2009 Total new words of fiction written: 36,496. Which includes: 1 novel rewrite completed (Nightcraft Mother); 1 novel taken from 15,000 words to 43,500 (Entangled); 1 short story started and finished (Teratology); 1 short story started (as yet unnamed). 15 stories submitted to markets. 11 rejections received (includes stories submitted in 2008). 3

“Rolling Steel,” a story I wrote with Jay Lake, is now live at Clarkesworld magazine. No, really! Not an April fool’s joke! 🙂 Go read! Oh and even cooler–it will be their podcast this month, so check back for that in a couple of days.

Very busy lately, but good things are afoot. I’ve written only about 17,000 words of fiction in the month of March, but, well, I had my reasons. I have updated a couple of the fiction links on my website…most of them are still broken, though, so don’t go look at them yet. Tomorrow. Maybe. 🙂

1. With the purchase (well, ordering) of a stereo system and one last run-through of Bed Bath & Beyond, I will say that this apartment is quite close to habitable. Okay, it’s great. Even if the rest of the pictures for the walls are on backorder. 2. My word count was low over the past

I crossed 40,000 words on ENTANGLED today, or halfway to the more or less arbitrary 80K goal. But, I’m about halfway through the outline, so we’ll call it good. Then I wrote a few hundred words starting my portion of a new collab with Jay Lake.  I am all about the collaborative writing these days!

I bought a bathroom scale yesterday. (“Oh, don’t do that,” said Red Shoes, with whom I went West Coast Swing dancing last night.) But…funny thing. I was all prepared to write this post, talking about how yes, I haven’t weighed myself in a month, I’ve been traveling and moving and eating whatever I like, and

No word count yesterday…my dad was here, spending the night so he could go to a trade show downtown. It was nice to see him, fun to show him my new place, and lovely to be bought dinner. 🙂 We spent a lot of time getting caught up, as you might imagine. He was real

Another thousand words on ENTANGLED today–that’s the joint novel with doctodd, of course. So I’m up to just over 36,000 words total, and solidly in the middle of the outline. It’s the outline, here, I want to talk about for a moment. Which will lead into some thoughts about co-writing in general. But specifically, for

Got back a little while ago from the (mostly) Team Seattle event at Borderlands that I blogged about the other day, finally meeting these awesome people IRL that I have been internet-stalking all this time (Cherie Priest, Mark Henry, Caitlin Kittredge, and Mario Acevedo–well I hadn’t actually been stalking Mario but I clearly need to