I will now be on two panels at Comicpalooza in Houston this weekend:
If Mary Sue is So Awesome, Why Does Everybody Hate Her? Friday, 3 PM
Gender in Science Fiction, Friday 4pm
If you’ll be there, please stop by and say hi!
I’ll be on my first ever panel at Comicpalooza, May 23-26, in Houston, Texas.
The panel is “Gender in Science Fiction” with K. J. Russell, Keri Bas, and D. L. Young. It’s scheduled for 4 – 5 PM, Friday, May 23. I’m looking forward to it! If you’ll be there, please stop by and say hi!
I am very pleased that Perihelion Science Fiction has published my story “Turning Humans On.” You can find it here:
And April’s stats were somewhat better … I think it’s a lot easier to do more words/hour when I’m working on a novel.
WORDS WRITTEN: 2170
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 6.7
WORDS/HOUR: 323.9
As you might guess by the date on this blog post, writing has been going slowly. The upside: next month’s stats almost have to be better!
WORDS WRITTEN: 973
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 4.2
WORDS/HOUR: 231.7
Finished editing one short story and finished two chapters in the novel … but it was still a slow month. How was your February?
WORDS WRITTEN: 2135
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 8.5
WORDS/HOUR: 251.2
There’s a phrase used in writing that you have to “kill your darlings”. I don’t think that means that if you like something, you should automatically cut it. What I do think it means is that if something isn’t working for the story, even if you love it, you have to cut it.
While editing my current WIP, I realized that I was letting the main character off the hook in the middle of the story and that the tension died at that point. The way I let her off the hook had some funny lines that I really liked. I didn’t want to cut them. But I did. And it worked—the tension increased.
Are you willing to kill your darlings?
This was a month of editing: totally rewrote one story and started a simpler revision on a second. Editing drove my words/hours down, but I did achieve the mythical hour a day on average, although I didn’t quite succeed at writing every day. How was your January?
WORDS WRITTEN: 4371
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 32
WORDS/HOUR: 136.6
We had another round of winter today with freezing rain and icicles. The frozen rain collected on a palm and made a great macro photography subject. I enjoy macro photography because it lets me see the world in a new way.
What do you do to see the world in a new way?
Here along the Gulf Coast, it doesn’t freeze very often, so when it does, we all run outside with our cameras to document the rare event. I’ve discovered that icicles make a really nice subject. The last time we had icicles, what caught my attention was the reflection of the trees inside the drops at the ends of the icicles. This time, finding the reflections didn’t interest me. What caught my attention instead was the rim of ice along the roofline.
To some extent, I think that writing is the same way. Even if two writers (or one writer at different times) started with the same story plot, characters, and theme, what catches their attention would be different, and they’d produce two different stories.
What caught your attention today?
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