by Christie Meierz | Oct 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
No, that’s not misspelled. <grin> 70,518 this morning. Last night, in the midst of writing the climax of the climactic chapter of The Fall, I realized I was seeing streaks. For those not familiar, this means (in my case) that a migraine is coming on. My...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013, Sky Warrior Books will republish The Marann. I will unpublish the self-pubbed version before the Sky Warrior edition goes live. This is the same story, but the re-release contains new and expanded scenes, and the writing is richer and tighter...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Text boxes still don’t work — but HTML boxes do! The number over there –> is now correct as of 10pm Sunday night. Yay!
by Christie Meierz | Oct 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
That –^ is the number that should over there. –> I finally got through the second scene of chapter 21. It took three tries to find the right point-of-view character, and the one that worked might not be the best one, but it works, and that means I can...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Does anyone know what that means? I’ve tried to edit my little wordcount box over on the right using Firefox, Chrome, and (shudder) IE, I’ve tried on my desktop running Windows 7 and my netbook running Windows 8, and that’s all I get. The change...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
61,051. /le sigh On a fantastically bright note, the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds last night and are going to the playoffs! YEAH! GO BUCS!
by Christie Meierz | Oct 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
See that little box over on the right that says Current Work In Progress? I was happily editing it daily, watching the number go up with a lot of satisfaction, and yesterday, it stopped working. In the editing popup, I can click the Save button until the sun goes...
by Christie Meierz | Sep 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m trying to write with a loud and obnoxious neighbor, and since we’re renting the house we’re living in, we are seriously considering moving when the lease is up end of November. I mean really. Houses in this part of the country are notoriously...
by Christie Meierz | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I seem to have neglected my blog again. Not because I forget about it — I don’t — but because I’ve been so focused on writing book 3 of the Tales of Tolari Space that I just didn’t have any creative energy left over to write much of...
by Christie Meierz | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here at WorldCon, I’ve been staying at the Marriott Riverwalk. It’s a … um … 30 or so stories? … building, and our room is … shall we say … pretty high up. When we arrived, they upgraded our room for free to one with a...