Relocated

We made it from Texas to Pennsylvania in 4 days’ time.  We had set out for 3, but got a very late start on day one, and my night vision makes driving very difficult at the best of times.
We’ve been here for just over a month now and the coffee shop is nearing ready to [...]

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Back in the saddle

So many things raising their heads to thwart any progress on just getting through the read-through of the old Draft Zero.  Hurricanes, RSI, busted computers.  Feh.
Yesterday, I got the hubs out of the house and we went to Walnut Creek Park for the sole purpose of sitting still.  Usually, when we go there, we make [...]

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The problem of time

No, not time to write (though everyone suffers that one).  What I’m thinking about is, how do you effectively introduce that your story is set in the recent past without plopping it in there like a bird turd out of the sky?
The hubby and I watched Starter For Ten the other night, and we pretty [...]

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101 Questions

Still plugging away at reading the original MS.  A guy on one of my email lists introduced me to the 101 Questions for your character meme, which I started to apply to some of the main characters in the book.  I don’t see needing to do it for everyone, if for no other reason than [...]

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Pardon me for writing

Several chapters in to the re-read and it is hard not to bring out the red pen. There’s some glaring mistakes, typos, etc, that I’m thinking, “oh, I can just fix that right now.” But I can’t because then I’ll start line editing, and it’s not ready for that yet.
One of the main [...]

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A non-Elewirian post

There’s always some other piece of writing on the back burner while working on ALUTK. This one doesn’t have a proper name, but I refer to it (in my own head) as “The Ghost Story” even though the “ghost” in it isn’t actually dead. He likes to remind me of that occasionally, lest [...]

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Location, location, location

Is there anything inherantly wrong with setting the book in Massachusetts?  Apart from the idea that Salem seems rather a cliche in terms of tolerance of witchcraft.  Did I set it there *because* I don’t have such ingrained memories of it as I would say, Pennsylvania, where I grew up?  PA isn’t part of New [...]

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Have I Read This Before?

So, I was without my laptop for nearly a week, and then after I got it back, it was terribly slow due to the fact that the repairs didn’t cover my 3rd party RAM card which had gone zzzt at the same time the logic board went zzzt. Ah, technology. But, it’s back [...]

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Progress report

Last night, I got 800 new words for a new replacement scene that had been bubbling in my brain for a few days. That’s a piddling number of words in the grande scheme of things, but I’m not actually trying to *add* word count to the overall work. In fact, I’m going to [...]

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picking nits

It occurred to me as I was driving home from the day job this evening, that the character of Stephen is problematic, not least of which because he appears to just find Fiona with no effort at all while it’s taken Rendel, a full-blooded Aelf’en, many years to find her through trial and error. [...]

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