three cups later....

a little more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:08:36 -0600

Chapter 3 is down.

And I know where chapter 4 is going, too.

Yay!

andrea the house guardian

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:05:49 -0600

I realized that my character's house guardian sounded too much like my main character, so I mapped her personality to that of a real-life friend of mine, and suddenly she doesn't suck so much. That's super.

I got the scene out of me. On to other scenes. My character now has a problem. I gotta figure out where we're going next.

Word count so far: 5,740

Co-author cat disapproves of your use of gerunds.

chaptah three

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:16:58 -0600

I have this scene I can't wait to write, because it's based on personal experience, and it's a bit self-indulgent, but man, I love it on so many levels.

Off to a convention. Back later.

and the rivers inbetween

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:48:26 -0600

Time to sleep, but three more pages of something.

Work has been unusually heavy lately, and that means little time to sleep and eat, much less write.

our cruelest sea

more scotch

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:08:33 -0600

I wrote. So now I sleep.

moving into two

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:36:08 -0600

The jacaranda is a tree that grows a lot in Southern California. It has extremely vivid purple flowers, and grows quite tall.

While we were at the San Juan Capistrano mission, I saw a lot of jacaranda. So I wrote them into this chapter. Along with the mission.

Been sick and/or under deadline. Haven't been writing. Back now.

end, chapter one

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:17:12 -0600

I think.

I'm worried it's not hooky enough. Eh. I know better than to worry too much about that at this stage.

I took a couple right turns between one day to the next, which means I actually wrote half again what I needed. I used to keep these bits of unused writing, but after years of keeping an "odds and ends" file that never got accessed again, I know you need to just kill the words. It may have seemed clever in context, but there's more clever stuff coming, honest.

So anyway, chapter two starts tomorrow. In the meantime, my brain gets to decide where it's starting.

palm wine and dust

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:37:58 -0600

And more writing. Hey, maybe this laptop wasn't a vanity purchase after all.

Cannot for the life of me figure out how to network my computers. Suspect that XP and Vista do not want to cooperate. I wouldn't care so much, except my frickin' music is all over on Gertrude (the PC in the basement), while Violet (the laptop) has very few tunes to her name.

Time to wash up and make dinner. Yay!

white-fleshed peaches

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:23:30 -0600

I really love nectarines, and this is the best time of year for them. Yum.

I wrote today, and I wrote yesterday, in one of the three projects.

On non-writerly-related writing, I also am working on a new campaign setting for my D&D campaign.

I've never thought about publishing any of my campaigns...but I kind of am keeping that in mind for this one. Probably hubris on my part, but who knows? It could come in handy someday.

the out-castle

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:09:01 -0600

Anyway, more writing.

Night!

the village idiot

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:18:55 -0600

I caved into my inner geek and bought a laptop. The economic stimulus and story sale for the Valdemar anthology both helped in this decision.

I've been writing, I just haven't been blogging.

All is well.

Sleep now.

stoopid.

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:43:24 -0600

I wanted to post a word count, but I can't because Google Docs is down.

Which just reminds me of why it is semi-dumb to do any writing using Google Docs.

I went back to an old idea I liked, dumped parts of it I didn't, and added a fresh chapter. Word count tomorrow.

Edit: 7415 words. Three chapters. Now I just need to throw a vat of boiling pitch on the heroes.

what we live for

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:11:33 -0600

I've got more things to live for lately -- things that take me away from the keyboard. Consequently, my typing time has started to increase in value.

That said, I'm seriously eyeballing this whole site consolidation thing for the following reasons:

I like blogging
I don't feel it meaningfully gets in the way of my regular writing.
The older I get, the harder it is for me to be scattered.
Someone, somewhere, is reading this.
AND (most important) I like writers who blog and connect with their audiences.

I'm thinking again about my writing, and I'm set on two big purchases this year: a laptop and a mountain bike. The latter may sound like it has nothing at all to do with writing, but there's something else I believe in -- getting away from the keyboard is a good thing. And my best ideas usually strike me while I'm doing physical activity or out in the wild. Why not combine both?

So, that's what's up here at the Three Cuppa. A new design will be forthcoming, along with posts that are more than just "wrote ten words, fed the cat, went to bed". Comments will open up. The heavens will rain with love and kisses.

Oh, and I did some more outlining.

outlining

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:48:48 -0600

Started outlining late last night.

Surprised at what I got.

More work tonight, I expect.

next up: i take my iPod on a dinner date

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:44:57 -0600

Dear Story,

You are off. Please come back as a big fat check with which I can pay off my furnace.

If you don't, then please don't wake me up when you come in. You know I don't approve of those late night parties you go to.

Love,
Mom

P.S. I am contemplating your next sibling.