Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mar
7

Romancing the Plot.

Posted in revisions | 4 Comments
I got a babysitter today. I’ve been skimming Danielle’s revision notes for the last week, but I hadn’t quite managed to get up the nerve to sit down and *really* go through them. Part of this is time, or lack thereof. Part of it is that I’m probably just a big-ass coward. But today, I figured no more excuses. (Plus I’m going to be chatting with her on the phone tomorrow and it would probably help if I knew what I was going to talk about. LOL.) Conveniently enough, my cousin is home from college on Spring Break, so I took advantage of her starving student status and offered her about 5 hours of work. Not that the kids are a tremendous amount all the time, but I really wanted some daylight hours to sort through the entire manuscript and all the notes (and make notes of my own), without… Read more
Mar
6

Finally Rendering Again

Posted in dragon age, poser | 3 Comments
Talivar by =mynfel on deviantART The new machine is brilliantly fast. Poser 8 works like a dream, and after several months of not doing anything, I really got the urge to play around with it tonight. (Even though I should be…um…looking at revisions?) However, I know myself well enough to know I need to get the bug out of my system or I’ll just be sitting around thinking about it. So, here it is. This is Talivar, a Dalish Apostate – just a quick character study for a Dragon Age pbp game I’m playing. Alway helpful to get some of the details down, and so I have. (Though I got lazy, since he’s supposed to have scars all around that missing eye, but I just don’t have time to do it justice right now.) That being said, I was originally going to try to do something a bit more serious,… Read more
Mar
5

Creative Writer Blog Award

Posted in award, no sleep 'til brooklyn | 3 Comments
Thanks to Nicole for giving me this latest blog award. 🙂 I know I need to send this out to others, but seeing as I’m rather strapped for time just now (and really? all I want to do is faceplant into a pillow), that will have to wait for a little bit. In the meantime, does anyone know how to stretch a weekend into five or six days? Please?… Read more
Mar
4

Coolest. Video. EVAR.

Posted in random, wtf | 3 Comments
Brilliant? or too much free time?… Read more
Mar
4

Give Me Chocolate or Give Me Death…

Posted in editing, hello kitty fail, revisions, socks | 12 Comments
You know – in case you didn’t really believe my tweet that my awesome editor, Danielle, sent me chocolate with my revisions. (Yes that is a pink Hello Kitty keyboard. Yes, I’m a freak. Sorry.) I’m still mulling the notes over, honestly – but in more of a potential “what can I do to really make this rock” sort of way than anything else. And because I know there will be two more books, I can also try to look at weaving some of the plots together so they will be a bit more cohesive between stories. I tend to think long-term. I’m very used to those long Fantasy epics, so when I first started writing, I assumed I could do the same thing…but as an aspiring author, writing a series is frowned upon – or at least pitching a book as part of one, anyway. As anyone who’s tried… Read more