POP! goes the imagination

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...

Done!

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...

Last Chapter Slowdown

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?...

CapClave 2013, Day 3

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...

CapClave 2013, Day 2

Rather a frenetic day! Still having a great time here; the panels have been uniformly entertaining and enlightening. I’ve avoided the George R.R. Martin madness, while finding moments here and there to write, though obviously I can’t pen great swaths of...