Yesterday, we celebrated my kid’s 10th birthday with friends in the park. (Um. Let’s just take a moment to note that this small human I helped create, carried around inside my body for the better part of a year, and then expelled from an exceedingly small orifice in my body is now A DECADE OLD. …
BRIEF: finished my Breakfast Club meets Magicians novel first draft. Clocked in at just under 50k words, which makes it more of a novella. Next draft will likely push it into novel territory, but that’s at least 6 months away while I do other stuff. OTHER STUFF: I’ve always regretted splitting Rethana’s story into two …
Okay, y’all’re gonna think the title is extra corny once you figure it out. In related news, it just occurred to me that we’re only a few months out from the 40th anniversary of the movie The Outsiders. And if you’re of my generation (again, I plan to write a longer post about that sometime …
There was a time when I loathed tattoos. This was when I was still my fearful child self, my anxiety-ridden teen self, and my superconfused young adult self. Anything different was terrifying. I know. Welcome To Humanness, right? People with tattoos intimidated the shit out of me. Remember, this was Germany in the ’80s and …
A BRIEF UPDATE
Remember that shiny sparkly new story I did prewriting for last week? Well, that turned into writing a shiny sparkly new story. The working title is THE PERSET PACK, in which “perset” means “breakfast.” Set in my Light-Walkers universe, the story is: THE BREAKFAST CLUB (minus the misogyny and homophobia of that exemplar of ’80s teensploitation) meets Lev Grossman’s THE MAGICIANS. And I’m telling the story from the POV of a weird girl named Anlon, my version of Ally Sheedy’s Allison Reynolds.
And there you have it. I’ve written about 10,000 words so far, and I am having a BLAST.
Okay, so remember when I said a couple weeks back that I’m sitting on four (4) novel-length works (3 novels and 1 short story collection) that each need a relatively small amount of work before going out into the world? It would behoove me to pick one of those and finish it and get it …
Yes. I chose that title specifically to get a certain song stuck in your head. If you’re American or GenX* or both, you’ll know which one it is. You’re welcome. (*I’m planning a near-future post concerning my thoughts on the very American phenomenon of shoving humans of the past 130ish years into boxes labeled with …
So, this is nearly 8 months late, but here are all the books I read last year. 2021 was a great reading year for me. It’s funny — since the pandemic started, all of my bookworm friends tend to fall into one of two categories: they’ve been reading more than they ever have in their …
BRIEF UPDATE. Never mind the title. Git yer minds out of the gutter. I DID IT. I completed my 7-day “fast” from social media, TV, phone games, and sweets. Now comes the maintenance phase, which will last…I don’t know how long. I need to touch base with Josh about that part. But I will have …
Okay, so it’s currently a quarter to midnight, and I have to get up early in the morning to ride a horse. No, that’s not a euphemism. You sickos. Anyway, before I sleep, I want to say a brief thing about my WIPs. A BRIEF THING ABOUT MY WIPS: Author extraordinaire and all-around good human …