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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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0052. Blame.
“You did this,” she snarled, and shook him roughly with an inhuman strength that made his head snap on his neck. “Look at Aysh! Look at her!” “I’m…I’m sorry, I didn’t…” “You...
Next I’ll be in the running for “crazy cat lady”.
Random DL snippet that’s been bouncing around in my head: “Stop doing that.” “Doing what?” “Smiling.” “Why?” “It’s creeping me out.” “That’s why I do it.” ̶...
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...
“Silent Hill” is one of the most annoying songs on DDR Max2, you know that?
So that agent who’s had a partial of DL for several months now? Finally got back to me. As usual I’m not naming names for the sake of professionalism and discretion, but this was what he said, plain and simple: “Thanks for sending...
That thing you do.
You know, I’ve noticed an interesting number of people starting to drift over here from Darkside Rainbow. Not just Amy, but a few other regulars whose IP addresses have become familiar on various site stats. It kind of amuses me, as I think t...
Myotis.
~headdesks~ I should be asleep. I have work in two hours. Instead I’m up writing. Unfortunately, not on Descending Light. I’ve made myself too nervous over that, waiting for the agent I’ve been talking to to read my partial and ...
~just…facepalms~
I lied. I won’t be posting chapters four and five until tomorrow at the earliest, probably later. They’re written, but I haven’t had time to read them through. The past five days have been a comedy of errors and, in between doing...
WoWa.
Chapter four of DL is finished, and chapter five is almost there. They’re very rough and in need of a lot of work; I’ll be reading through them tomorrow to catch the most grievous problems, and posting to the beta group some time this we...
One, two, step.
Chapter four on DL is going slowly because last week I was swamped with work on Job #2 and didn’t even touch it; yesterday I rewrote the beginning of it, discarded the second scene since I’d changed my mind about the direction of it, and ...
Well it ain’t no woman, flesh and blood; it’s that damned old rodeo.
Phew - chapters one through three on Descending Light have been posted. Sihaya and Michelle, if you want to read, the password is the same. (Sabrina, too, though you’ll probably see this on LJ before you see it here.) The new version of chap...
I’d post a lyric for a title, but the “Diva Dance” song from The Fifth Element really doesn’t have lyrics.
Erk. I kind of passed out in the middle of finishing chapter three of DL last night - but it’s done now, and I’m printing out everything to give it a readthrough before posting it for the beta group. I’m not wholly sure about chap...
…why am I listening to music from the DBZ soundtrack?
Chapters one and two are rewritten on Descending Light, and I’m almost done with chapter three in its entirety. It’s quite short, actually - just a quick thing to introduce a villain and a little foreshadowing of events in chapter four, ...
Abstracture.
~squints up one eye~ …I don’t really know who my major antagonist is in Descending Light, or why there should be conflict beyond a few vague ideas of the problem Van presents and the general group of people who will take issue with it. ...
The sky is too high to paint tonight.
~facepalms~ I’m rewriting Descending Light again. I fetched up against a brick wall in chapter three, and realized that I wasn’t going to get any farther because my foundation was too weak. Chapter one was adequate to record events; the...
Dup-dweee-duh-duh-duh-dweeee-dow.
…don’t ask about the subject line. The Tick just happens to be coming on TV as I’m writing this, and I have a habit of titling my entries after a line from whatever music, movie, or show I’m listening to at the time. Have yo...
Demo…
One thing I will never understand is the palpable smugness that some exhibit regarding their writing abilities. How can one be smug about a talent so fickle and inconstant? Still prodding away at chapter two of Descending Light, by the way. I hope ...
Chief.
Oh, finally. This morning I managed to pull out of my writing funk, and finished chapter one of Descending Light. The rough drafts of both chapter one and the prologue are posted on the BetaBlog; Sihaya and Michelle, if you’re interested in r...
I can’t believe I’m listening to a song called “Violet Sauce”.
I’ve let myself get caught in the trap. What trap, you say? That trap that ensnares nearly every writer at some point or another; that trap that bogs him or her down at ten pages and stalls the story incessantly while it morphs, changes, twists...
Hn.
Well, I’ve come up with a title for Singe’s story: Descending Light....
