Monthly Archives: July 2010

Jul
22

Wielding the Green Pencil of Death

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My copyedits came in yesterday. Along with a house style guide, a legend of obscure short-hand symbols, and a magical green pencil, all provided by my awesome editor, Danielle. It’s a tad intimidating, I’ll admit. In between my gilded words are copious amounts of colored notes – Danielle’s line edits in grey, the copy-editor’s in red, Danielle’s rebuttal to some of those red marks…in green. It’s almost like Christmas came and barfed all over my book. I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course. It can be hard to see your words and sentences shredded – but honestly, the editors aren’t changing my writing voice, so much as refining it and making it stronger. In the writing world, less really is more – and prose often needs snipping to keep it crisp and fresh. So now I’ve got two weeks to go through all these little changes and… Read more
Jul
21

Midnight WTFkery

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Yeah, it’s a mouse. It’s called the G Point mouse. And it looks like a vagina. Yes. A vagina. And like – yes, I know geeks are apparently hard up to find a date, but seriously? SERIOUSLY??… Read more
Jul
21

Workshopping It

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I’m starting to get requests to do workshops or guest blogs. Not a whole lot, yet, but enough that I’m starting to think about it. Which is sort of odd for me, since I’m not sure I’m enough of an expert to really “teach” anyone anything about writing. The best I can think of is maybe something on the art of being a panster. (or “mister” as Jeffe prefers). Or maybe some combination of things that might work for both pansters/plotters. Ideally, I’d like to get some input on maybe running Flash Fiction exercises, because some of what works in pansting is just letting go of the moment and writing what shows up. (Something that plotters tend to be fairly uncomfortable with.) Five minute writing prompts might work pretty well for that, I think. But again, the most I can do is talk about what works for “me” – and… Read more
Jul
20

Versatile Blogger Award

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Over the 4th of July weekend, Danica Avet was nice enough to award my blog with this lovely badge. 🙂  I’d meant to get it up sooner, but time being what it is, it had slipped my mind. So here we go. Now, here are the rules: 1. Thank those who loved me enough to bestow this gift. 2. Share seven things about myself. 3. Bestow this honor onto 15 newly discovered or followed bloggers–in no particular order–who are fantastic in some way. 4. Drop by and let my fifteen new friends know I love them. I think I’m honestly running out of things to talk about myself, but here goes: 1. I’ve been a licensed NAUI SCUBA diver since I was 15. Of course, I haven’t actually been diving in a while, but it’s still a nice thing to have.  2. I never turn off Dirty Dancing if I… Read more
Jul
20

On a Completely Random Note…

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…Lucy is now tweeting. Or really, she says weird crap and I will tweet it under the account name @LucyIsTweeting She’s a funny little kid. Sometimes gross. Feel free to follow, or not. For obvious reasons, she won’t be following anyone back.… Read more