End of the week update – which I hope to make a regular post. I’ve got most of the website and associated hookups in place and doing what they should I’ve switched over my .sig to Impaler on my main email. I still need to set my assorted newsgroup posting .sigs to do the same Read More…
Category: Writing
Not the Dracula you were expecting
Stepping on hot buttons
I’m rather good at stepping on hot buttons – not intentionally, I just seem to manage to do it without realizing where I’m going. Most of the time, I can keep my own hot buttons out from underfoot, but occasionally something hits one and it’s on for one and all. SEE! The Kate Shred-O-Matic dispense Read More…
Working at the admin side
Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and signed up to twitter and facebook. I’m still tweaking settings, but I’ll need to find a way to avoid getting pulled into the massive time sink social networking can be. Today’s main effort has been hooking up my blog to automatically notify twitter and facebook whenever I post. Read More…
The Man Behind the Monster
(This is the third of a series of three blog posts. The previous two posts can be found at Mad Genius Club and The Naked Truth.) All of the things I described in the previous posts dug up a fair amount of information about Prince Vlad Dracula. What they didn’t do was give me any Read More…
Tomorrow…
I post at Mad Genius Club. It’s the first of a 3-post series about Impaler: why I wrote it, and the choices I made when I wrote it. Me being me, there are also excursions into the nature of good and evil, how history distorts the view of the past, and a whole lot of Read More…
Done!
The short story, that is. I got feedback from the readers this morning, then there was a flurry of revision and rechecking and email (not necessarily in that order). Now all I need to do is the final formatting, and I’m ready to send. Before the deadline, even. Now I can get back to what Read More…
There’s nasty white stuff
Currently several inches of wet white frozen stuff on the ground, and climbing. For a tropical-born brat this is very unpleasant – but as always it’s a valuable writing experience. I used the winter delights of semi-rural Pennsylvania to add to the descriptions of Eastern Europe in winter in Impaler – cold is cold, and Read More…
Goal achieved!
Changing the mood
Spent a good chunk of the weekend on a short story for the next Valdemar anthology – the draft is about 3/4 done, then there’s all the usual polishing and cleanup to be done. It’s such a complete change of pace and mood from what I have been working on I have writer whiplash. Note Read More…