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The Best Damned Story I Can Write…Today
This morning, I reached a place in this writing journey that I’ve never been before. Awhile back there was some blog storm about when a story should be submitted. Jessica Faust at BookEnds wrote that Good Enough is Never Enough, and obsessive...
Synopsis Hell
If I can just get this blasted synopsis written, then The Bloodgate Codex is ready and waiting to go out and face the cold, cruel world once more. I’ve never enjoyed the synopsis, but this one is proving harder than usual. Maybe because IR...
Revision Xibalba II
So here are a few of the details that I’ll be tackling this week in the Maya story. Opening scene: clarify the whole “video taping” element. Smooth the dialogue so it’s not quite so stilted. Goal: eliminate reader c...
Maya Blurb Retake Retake
I think I’m really, really close. Thank you to Rene for her question — I think this one is even stronger. Called “Ruin” because he destroyed his entire civilization, the Gatekeeper is sworn to kill anyone who tampers with the Bloodg...
Maya Blurb Retake
I hereby declare that May the Queen of Blurbs! Last night she patiently helped me tear and paste and scribble until we came up with a revised blurb for the Maya fantasy. My beloved Sis also made a few important tweaks that I think help a lot ...
Maya Fantasy Blurb
Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Smell the coffee brewing, fresh, crisp books, and stories just waiting to be read? Great. Open your eyes and pretend this blurb is on the back of one of those books. Would you want to read the story?...
Connections
Follow me, for a moment. I swear this will all make sense. The following are all somehow related: Revision Xibalba, the Maya fantasy May’s comment that Geoffrey was a useless character, and her recommendation to deepen another secondary ch...
The Maya Fantasy Opening
Revision #113 or something like that. It’s just that pesky first line and the next few paragraphs. So small, yet so important. They must set the mood, the language, the character…they must be compelling, moving, tempting you to c...
Revision Xibalba
Quetzls sang, warriors beat spears against their shields, and there was great rejoicing across the land, for the third (polish) pass of the Maya fantasy has been completed. All of my [notes] have been answered. All of my other notes I captured as...
The Maya Fantasy
Openings suck. They do. I’d rather write 400 pages total than page one. Inevitably, I end up rewriting the first page at least a dozen times. Last night, I ripped the opening apart again and shuffled it all back together. I think, may...
Revision Xibalba, the next phase
Now that the major “re-VISION” of the story has been completed, I’m ready for the “edits” pass. I already did the first 100 or so pages from hardcopy a few months ago, smoothing sentences, etc. but I still wasn’...
Revision Xibalba: The End
If you heard the screams early this evening, it was me! I finally finished the second major pass of the Maya fantasy, Night Sun Rising! (title subject to change) I want to try and capture some of my feelings and thoughts here for later while th...
Revision Xibalba
Yes, I’m still slowly grinding away on the project that will not end. I lost Friday night thanks to a lovely visit with Aunt BB and Uncle J — it’s always nice to see them. Just hard on my writing schedule. Saturday we had 3 ho...
Revision Xibalba
I’m truly in hell. Jaid is now in Xibalba, but that’s not what I mean. For the first time I can remember, I *dread* working on a project. I mean, I’d rather do anything at all. Clean toilets. Find the carpet in the monster...
Revision Xibalba
I admit, the day started out pretty rough. Just so nobody thinks my head is getting too big, I got a rejection on a short story last night that bummed me out so bad that I had a pretty nasty talk with Gregar, my sadomasochist muse. I said som...
Revision Xibalba Part Two
Finished last (planned) new scene! Total counts at Kaldi’s this morning: breakfast 4 cups of coffee, including one Highlander Grog (ahhhhh, Gregar!!) 1764 words a little over two hours Heading home, will probably take a walk, and then begin...
Revision Xibalba Part One
Day One of vacation from the Evil Day Job: Made it to Kaldi’s this morning and began working on the next section shortly after 9 am. Two cups of coffee and one section down. Moving into Quinn’s POV next. I think I might need one las...
Revision Xibalba
Modest progress today. I didn’t finish all of the new scenes as I’d hoped, but I’m pleased with the 2,225 words I managed to work out. All Dallas threads have converged and the big showdown is iminent. According to my spreadsh...
Revision Xibalba
Oh, dear, it’s been so long since I worked on this project that I forgot my own characters’ names! Not the major characters, obviously, and this story does have quite a large cast (with three major POV threads), but still, that’s ...
Those Genre Fences
I did some soul searching with my accountability partner, Jenna, and I think I finally realize why I can’t get any momentum built up on the Maya story. I can’t decide what genre the story should be in. You might be asking, how on earth co...
