Words: 0 Bad author, no cookie! One of the dangers if you will of showing rather than telling, is that you can become mired in the action catalog. This is sentence after sentence that detail, often excruciatingly, what the protagonist is doing second by second. Miranda hit the snooze button and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later the alarm clock went off again. She fumbled at it to turn it off, silencing the buzzer Read more…
Words: 850 (yesterday 1,375) Music: None, unless you count the noise of the fan. Music to my ears, anyway The project is almost finished. I estimate I am around 5,000 words from the end, maybe fewer. I will finish on schedule or as near to it as possible, and after I write the new story for the Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance, I can concentrate on edits. Well, concentrate on edits in between the Read more…
Words: 1,785 Music: Eklektikos on KUT. Austinites have a love-hate relationship with John Aielli. Luckily, he was on vacation today, and the replacement DJ is a lot less irksome. Note to Slaid Cleeves: While naming your new CD “Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away” shows you know your audience, I hope you provide us with one or two upbeat tunes.* Just accepted — an assignment to write a story for an upcoming anthology of time travel romance. Read more…