January 2008
53 posts
I’m so close to completing The New Sirens—working title of the sequel to Seaborn, that I took time tonight to go back and look at notes from my writing/crit group for the early chapters. One of the sentences called out as “nice” in chapter one is,
She kicked higher, pulling Shelly by the hand, one foot bounding off Ochleros’ arm, up to his shoulder where she set her feet down and leaned an elbow against the sea-demon’s ear.
Forget about the context, sea-demons, who Ochleros or…
I know, I know, everything’s on the Web, but it’s a different experience when you live a few miles away from someplace, and then find that there’s even better stuff about it on the web, details I wouldn’t be able to get easily even on site. So, I really don’t need to live a few minutes away from Rye Harbor to know what it looks like, how deep the moorings are, that if I was coming by sea I should “pick up the Rye Harbor Morse A buoy on approach, and then follow the green buoys inside the…
I know, I know, everything’s on the Web, but it’s a different experience when you live a few miles away from someplace, and then find that there’s even better stuff about it on the web, details I wouldn’t be able to get easily even on site. So, I really don’t need to live a few minutes away from Rye Harbor to know what it looks like, how deep the moorings are, that if I was coming by sea I should “pick up the Rye Harbor Morse A buoy on approach, and then follow the green buoys inside the…
Super busy lately, but I did get to spend some time last weekend to put this together—and write two chapters! Okay, so here’s version 1 of the book link widget builder—generic version. I made a Juno Books version here. The idea is to get your readers, fans, friends, family, a good portion of the millions out there on the Web to post your link widget on their blogs, web pages, MySpaces, Facebooks, etc., and make it easy for those who are looking for a good book to get yours. That…
Met with the writing group last night for some critiquing, and Boskone came up. I’ll be there, meeting up with Skott and a few others in our writing group—except for those going to Hawaii.
February 15-17, 2008, Westin Waterfront, Boston, Massachusetts.
Guest of Honor: David Weber
Official Artist: Dean Morrissey
Special Guest: Bruce Coville
Featured Filker: Seanan McGuire
Several good posts on this already, but I’m going to add the things I do. (I’m near the end of my fourth novel, so I’m not writing from a huge well of experience, but these things work for me).
By writing, I’m talking construction, how you go about the writing stage of a novel, most of the activity that takes place after you’ve outlined, planned the arc to some extent, and you’re characters are doing stuff, getting hurt, committing crimes, making eye contact, re-forging ancient…
Seaborn’s sequel: I’m into the 20’s of about 33 chapters, and I’ve started the phase (this has happened with the last three novels) where I begin filling in bits of the remaining chapters as the ideas strike me, writing whole scenes, action, dialogue, without completing the chapter. Then everything starts to sort of ooze together. I’ll start finishing chapters out of order until the last of them is complete—up to now, I’ve pretty much followed a direct course from chapter 1, writing some…
From the amazing Francis Tsai, a lobster-ish creature coming out of the sea. Beautiful. We’ll need a vat of drawn butter for this dude. http://francistsai.blogspot.com/2008/01/ripper-of-legend.html
francis tsai’s blog: Ripper of Legend
From the amazing Francis Tsai, a lobster-ish creature coming out of the sea. Beautiful. We’ll need a vat of drawn butter for this dude. http://francistsai.blogspot.com/2008/01/ripper-of-legend.html
francis tsai’s blog: Ripper of Legend
circular piece of digital work, the ocean and surface
I started out wanting to do something a bit different, intending to work in the idea of “stitch” (this week’s Illustration Friday topic). I wanted to stitch together two worlds, the ocean and the surface worlds, weave them together, and everything was heading in that direction, when this tentacled thing rose out of the depths and took over the world. It’s crazy how things don’t go as planned.
Click the pic to see the large view.
