Sallya is live on Alien Skin
The illustration is terribly cute. Go, look!I don’t usually link to things like this here.
I try to stay vaguely on topic, and stick to geekgrrl and writing things. (Maybe that’s a mistake!) But this blog is astonishing. It’s maintained by a photographer, and he’s telling the story of Hurricane Katrina’s impact on Pearlington, MS,...Note to self.
Apparently, what one does when one doesn’t know what happens next in a story is upgrade Movable Type to version 3.2. (Mmm, yummy new antispam features!) And, of course, resist the urge to say, “But I don’t want that to happen, that’s...I don’t know what happens next in this story.
Maybe I should tweak the website. Or install more Movable Type plugins. Or make a page on this site to show people how cute my cats are. Or install more Movable Type plugins! Or all of the above! *heavy sigh* Or...Four and Twenty Blackbirds, by Cherie Priest
I’m not sure what led me to go to the Southern Gothic panel at Dragoncon. I suspect it was the panel description: What is it about the American South that haunts the literary psyche? Some of horror’s Southern voices will talk about what it is like to live...Cliché story
I started a second story for Scalzi’s cliché challenge. I’m a lot more enthusiastic about this one, since I get to write aliens, woohoo! Of course, the fact that I have characters and a milieu and a general situation does not mean that I have a...Upon Reflection…
I’ve decided that you give up on a story when it’s about Jebi Knight Mary Sue, leading the oppressed rebel army of big business against the forces of evil market restrictions, led by the terrifying Darth Nader. Short of that, you give up on a story when...A Question.
I have a question, for those of you wiser than I. When do you give up on a story? Never? When you run out of markets? When you decide it sucks? I’m considering pulling a story from circulation. I just… feel it’s flawed. I wrote it over a year ago and...*gibber*
I’m trying to exercise more, mainly so I feel like less of a slug. Lots of people (Orson Scott Card, etc.) recommend exercise for authors on the grounds that it’s hard to force lively prose out of a sluggish, tired body, and it’s true. I may have to...Subscribe
