After a break for the holiday weekend, I’m back into blogging (and revising). I didn’t have a chance to do much writing over the weekend, but I did get some reading done, and noticed something interesting in my reading. I’ve been reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga, which is a fantastic science-fiction series. I’m in [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Revise. Rinse. Repeat.
Posted in Fiction on November 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Falling in Love all Over Again
Posted in Fiction on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had a real topic, but I forgot it. So instead, my musing of the day… I think I’m falling in love with my manuscript again. This is the manuscript that I started planning a year ago by taking a short story I wrote when I was twelve and adding an astronaut to it (because [...]
Operatic storytelling
Posted in Fiction, Music on November 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m awful at blogging regularly. My apologies. On Monday we went to the opera, which was a lot of fun. We saw Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Now, this opera, has the peculiar feature that most of the action in it occurs offstage. So we’re told about everything that has happened, from a duel, to a battle [...]
In Defense of Twitter
Posted in Fiction on November 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I realize anyone who got here through Twitter doesn’t need to hear a defense of it. But I’ve found myself, recently, having to explain why I find Twitter so useful, and I thought it would be a good idea to get those ideas down in print. (Other people have dealt eloquently with this topic already, [...]
Elves in Space facts
Posted in Fiction on November 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Some trivia, in honor of the completion of the first draft of Elves in Space. (I’m back into revisions on the other book now. Amazingly, not hating it yet. Yay!) Length: 85,000 words (could go up or down a lot in revisions) Number of break-ins/heists: 5 Number of spaceship thefts with MacGyvered magical tools: 1 [...]
Improvising
Posted in Fiction, Music on November 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today I’m going to do two very stupid things. First, I’m going to talk about a musical skill I don’t have, and try to tie it back to Monday’s post. Then, I’m going to attempt to connect it to a bad writing metaphor. Ready? Here goes. Let’s talk about improvisation. So, on Monday, I admitted [...]
Musical Inspirations
Posted in Fiction on November 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m stealing a topic again today from Anassa, who posted about music on her blog yesterday. Because I have some funky favorite music to share! But first: I will admit, right off the bat, to being someone who likes to listen to music while I write. Actually, I mostly forget to put it on, but [...]
Progress Report
Posted in Fiction on November 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Or, why no real blog today: I’m 74,000 words into the first draft of Elves in Space, which I was hoping to finish at between 80 and 85k. So things are heating up. I have this desperate, probably futile hope of finishing the draft this weekend. (Definitely futile, at the rate of procrastination I’m going [...]
Why I love the Organ
Posted in Faith on November 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I was thinking about blogging while practicing the organ this morning, and realized that I really haven’t talked much about what makes the instrument so cool. So here goes. 1. Volume! You can simply make more noise with an organ than any other instrument. It’s easily the biggest instrument you can play. When we were [...]
I’ll let Twain write this one
Posted in Fiction on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry — I completely forgot to blog on Friday! Would have forgotten today, too, but Josh reminded me. This is going to be a short one, because I’m tired. Mostly other people’s words, in fact. First, I’ll send you to Anassa’s post “In Defense of Reading Bad Writing.” Read that? Then, as a continuation, [...]
