The Writing Life

Because it really comes in handy when you’re sitting down to explain the smell, feel, geographical layout, and logistics of fantastical foreign cities. Seriously. Can I write all these trips off now?

When was the last time I wrote new material? Not summaries and revisions, but new material? Ah, yes. Thing is, I’m doing so much writing at work that it doesn’t *feel* like I haven’t been writing. I feel like I’ve been… well, writing every day. And I certainly *open up* my actual writing files at

I write everything at my job. Everything. I write up SOPs for software installation, hardware maintenance, corporate store applications. I write “news” stories and announcements for our intranet frontpage. I create PowerPoint presentations from talking-point outlines. I write and edit marketing copy, business proposals, executive resumes. I write and revise panel descriptions, sales rep letters,

Still hate them. On the upside, I didn’t realize I had this many backlogged novel projects.

I was waiting for her to publicly post it first…. so now it’s really true! For those that didn’t read it in the locked LJ post, me and God’s War and all the rest are now being represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary agency. I’m uber-super-thrilled about this. She was my first

I’ve been spending the weekend trying to put my book projects in order (OK, Saturday was mostly pancakes, barbecue, and the like, but I was thinking real hard about it. Most of the actual working happened today, while I was still hungover from staying up too late out here). And today I reviewed, once again,

Got my check last week for my Year’s Best sale and cashed it yesterday. Yippeee! Friends and relations, however, were rather horrified to learn that the going rate for a Year’s Best anthology sale is… about $100. I could say that nobody writes for the money, but actually, I now write for a living. So,