published again

365 Tomorrows did another of my stories here. Which is nice.

That said, I think I'm going to have to broaden who I send stories to. Even with the flash fiction, I think I could and should be sending them to as many places as I can, and I've fallen into a bit of a complacent "365 will like this" mode. I love 365 tomorrows, and I'm glad to have been published by them. I just want to have been published by lots and lots and lots of places.

something new

I've been vaguely dicking around with my twitter account, and I thought I'd try something. Twiction. 140 character stories. Apparently there's already a website for them at http://www.twiction.net but at the moment it's a blog sort of in search of a community.

Oh well, this could be fun.

woot! woot! That's the sound of publication

two nice things for today:

1) 365 tomorrows are going to publish another of my stories. Yay!
2) 365 tomorrow did one of my stories as a podcast! Double yay!

stupid better ideas, or better stupid ideas

Reasons to be irritated: I was most of the way through plotting the follow up to Jack In The Green, needing only to write up the chapter by chapter plot when a better idea whacked me over the back of my head. An idea so much better that I'd have to go through and change pretty much everything. So now it's back to the drawing board.

Reasons to be delighted: it really really is a better idea. A new character, a new voice, possibly even a new love interest (or at least a frisson). The book will be a better place with this in it.

Jacks and Queens

Nearly done with Jack In The Green. Just the last chapter to finish.

Then again, it's been "just the last chapter to finish" for coming up to a week now. Momentum died a little at 50,000 words.

I'm just tired, and this hasn't been a good month for personal reasons.

On the plus side, I wrote fast and I think i wrote well, and I already have the idea for the sequel, The Queen of the May. Not sure if I'll hold off and write that next year, or say the hell with it and do it now.

Time will tell, I suppose.

in between the micro wrimo and the pico wrimo

so yeah, it's NaNoWriMo.

As is now traditional, I'm writing. Aja and I came up with the idea for a supernatural romance novel called Jack In The Green. It's about the Green Man, and I think it will be pretty good. Started it yesterday, hit the 5000 work mark at about midnight last night. Looking good.

long time...

every now and then, life gets between you and your writing. I've still been writing, I just haven't been blogging about it. Did some stories I really liked lately but also had some dry patches.

Next month, I'm taking part in NaNoWriMo. I'm not expecting greatness, but if it gives me the carcass of a novel in a month, I can skin and dress it after that. It's going to be based on an idea Aja and I had ages ago, a fantasy romance about the Green Man.

I wrote a lot of the outline today, I think it could be pretty good.