by Christie Meierz | Nov 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last night, we had a family movie night upstairs and finally watched the latest Star Trek movie, Into Darkness. First, I was a little confused, when the final credits rolled, as to what darkness we were talking about. Second, well, spoilers. Click on the thingie...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lots of folks are gearing up for NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. According to the website, there are over 200,000 people registered. Thatsa lotta books. I’m not one of that 200,000+, and I feel guilty for some strange reason. Not that I feel some...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m trying a new thing in Farryn’s War: limiting myself to two point-of-view characters, and writing alternate chapters in each. As much as I like to head-hop, this is a challenge. I have to rein myself in and NOT write a scene from some interesting minor...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
No one likes to talk about the death of a child.I learned that the hard way, by losing one and then finding that no one wanted to hear about it. Thirty years ago today, I lost a ten-month-old son to congestive heart failure. He was born tiny and sick, and he never...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Farryn’s War just won’t leave my mind. Now, in addition to scenes of The Fall constantly playing through my mind, so do potential scenes of Farryn’s War. The other day I gave up and wrote out part of one such scene that I had to get out of my head....
by Christie Meierz | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
That number over there –> is 78,236 this morning, before I get started. Before I get started, I look around. At the dust in the corner. At the cluttered coffee table. And so on. And you know what? I’m not going to clean it, because <drum roll>: I...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I woke up this morning with scenes from a sequel to The Fall running through my head, and I lay in bed for a full hour letting them play out in my mind’s eye. The story will follow a Tolari named Farryn (you’ll find out who he is toward the end of The...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
At 76,782 words, the second-turned-first draft of The Fall is done. I think you’re going to love it. What Steven King does at this point (according to his book, On Writing) is put the manuscript away for six weeks. Me, I’m going to go back to chapter 1 and...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
As eager as I’ve been to get to the last chapter, now that I’m here, it feels strange. Tying up the last loose ends, picking up the trail of bread crumbs, less than 250 words of progress on it yesterday. At 74,607, then. How much foreshadowing to put in?...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
And now I’m back home, with a sigh and a collapse into comfortable furniture. CapClave was a blast — I think I had more fun there than I did at WorldCon. Well, no, I take that back; I did have more fun there than I did at WorldCon.Today I mostly networked...
