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You could call this my "professional" blog - where I write about being a journalist, struggling to become a novelist, and at times the issues of being a gay author writing (sometimes) gay-themed fiction. I can't promise I'll always sta
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0042. Parallel.
Remi jacked the Jenny out of neutral and angled her out of her slot in the steady stream of aerial traffic. Below a single docking area beckoned, the first open spot he’d seen after driving along miles and miles of parked aircraft. As it was ...
0040. Wires.
Remi had no idea how Sheridian had managed to turn the entire engineering deck of the Pursuviant into a mirror of the messy lab he’d left behind on Eridanos port, but Remi could barely get in past the junk piled practically ten deep. How the k...
0038. Magic.
“Akhi?” With a sigh, the BioGen glanced up from his schematics. “What is it this time, Connor?” “I’ve been reading–” “That alone is cause for concern.” “Very funny, dickhead.” ...
0036. Cornstarch.
Rule #2: Don’t Lose Touch With Your Relatives “If anyone can expose you faster than a Vegas hooker can drop her drawers, it’s your nosy Aunt Myrtle. Here’s a tip: it looks a lot more suspicious if you vanish into thin air th...
0030. Birth.
It first knew only warmth, yet knew not the word to describe it. Wet weightlessness, such that when cold air assaulted it and gravity pulled it down, its legs buckled beneath it, never before used. It felt pain for the first time, then the strange ...
0029. Post-coital.
Akhilesh waited until Sujit slept to slide from beneath the hot, heavy weight of the man’s arm. Sujit barely stirred; he’d worn himself out and passed out almost as soon as he was done with Akhilesh’s unresponsive body. Sweat chille...
0004. Leverage.
“Remi?” “Yes?” “Did you know that I had more than my arm reconstructed after Cambodia? It’s amazing what synthetic technologies can do. Feels just like real flesh.” “So that’s not a real–&...
My friend Anji always says “Bunny Bunny” on the first of the month. I’m not quite sure why.
Start of month 5 of waiting for Baen (Baen’s? I’m never quite sure, seen it both ways) to get back to me on EoE. I should stop counting before I start fretting myself bald. I’ll hear back some time between September and December. ...
Aye aye, Cap’n Tightpants.
Yes, more Firefly references. Blame a friend who keeps getting it stuck in my head. A while ago I took down the sample excerpts from various stories in progress. I read through them, and they were godawful (mostly old stuff, and unedited sections f...
Wiki wiki wiki.
[Please pardon any typos; I’m writing this on the Eee PC over breakfast at Chacho’s, and this keyboard is smaller than the span of one hand.] First, for those of you who wandered over here from DR: http://www.darksiderainbow.net/just-a-li...
…just floating.
I’ve been doing some rethinking on Singe’s world, and restructuring; the way it’s set up right now, every time I try to work with it I get caught in this lofty, brain-shrouding miasma that I always associate with high fantasy. I ca...
Orbital.
Remember a while ago I mentioned getting a few cheap-but-good writing books to help improve my writing? Gary Provost’s 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing is definitely a case of getting what you pay for. The introduction alone, in which he blath...
Baby, don’t cry.
First Madeleine L’Engle, now Robert Jordan - two great names in fantasy, gone. Madeleine L’Engle was one of the first fantasy authors that I read as a child; I started with her, Brian Jacques, and a few others, and I still have several do...
Put ‘em up.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah, I’m so sucking at this sequel crap. I’m sure I’ll find my stride eventually and settle down into a steady writing flow beyond these quick bursts of industry, but you know, I’d like it if “eventually...
Ashimoto “Bounce, Bounce”.
Practically overnight, I’ve become addicted to Namie Amuro. Off-topic junk aside, I’m rewriting chapter two of IoF yet again. I’ve finally got that cheesy, goofy snap back that goes so well with Remi, down to Remi and Kerra bickeri...
And if you aren’t permitted to return?
Immediately after my last entry, I shut everything off - killed the lights and closed the laptop so I could think without any visual distractions. I put in my earbuds, with some quiet orchestral music that would block out outside sounds without crea...
It’s that song.
Next e-mail sent. I’d thought about waiting until Monday again so it won’t be part of the weekend backlog again, but there’s no point. We’ll see what the second agent says. Writer’s block has officially hit. I’m...
Well, it’s 3 a.m., I’m out here riding again…
I rewrote chapter two in its entirety and I think it came out better, with a stronger, more familiar feel of Remi’s voice and less whining. I had to resort to listening to Poe again to get it right - thanks to the mental images I get of Remi j...
Ow, ow, brainfreeze!
Eating popsicles to conserve on air conditioning may be a workable idea, but it’s a painful one if you indulge too quickly. Anyway. For the two in my (limited) reader base who have access to the beta blog, chapter two of IoF is up, running at...
Keep holdin’ on when my brain’s tickin’ like a bomb.
… Okay, about two pages later…um…well, maybe Remi isn’t snapping out of the emo and bitterness. Then again, I’m kind of moving current events along intertwined with remembered events bridging the months between the last...
Swimming through the ashes of another life.
I’ve been piddling along a few thoughts at a time on chapter two of IoF, but not really getting anywhere. Although chapter one gives that brief flashback, chapter two is the real start of current events, and when I start something off like tha...
Keep breathin’, ’cause I’m not leavin’ you anymore.
Well…it’s sent. Query letter plus the first five pages of the novel, as the agency that I chose for my first shot does allow querying authors to paste those pages into the body of their query e-mail. For a few moments I was so amusingly...
So I’ll cash my checks and place my bets, and hope I always win.
The past twenty-four hours have been pretty good. Last night I whipped out a better synopsis for 3017: EoE, and today I finished chapter one of book two of the AE: 3017 trilogy, Icarus on Fire. Sihaya and Michelle, I’ll be e-mailing you URLs...
