Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 135
September 24, 2018
Action Bits
I walked away from social media last week after finishing the revisions, and it was…pretty nice. The Maiden’s Blade is now back with the editor, and I thought I’d give it a couple days before diving into the next huge task. Instead, I spent a few days watching documentaries, cleaning the house, and spending long …
September 21, 2018
September 19, 2018
Very Little Brain
On Monday, I added net 8k words to The Maiden’s Blade in the process of getting the last third revised. Yesterday morning I finished a few small detail bits and sent the whole shebang off to my editor, who was no doubt relieved that I hadn’t run away with the manuscript clenched firmly in my jaws …
September 14, 2018
Scene of the Crime
Oh, the humanity.
September 13, 2018
Zero to First
Moving on from a zero draft
September 10, 2018
Hooky in Lacey
When writers play hooky.
September 7, 2018
A Wooden Road
Just to see where it goes.
September 6, 2018
Peanut Wars
I thought it was the squirrels burying peanuts all over the backyard. I find them in the unlikeliest places, and often I can’t figure out how the bloody tree-rodents managed to drive them into packed earth without disturbing anything around. This morning, however, I was trimming my hair on the back deck and a plump, …
September 4, 2018
King and Gemini
© Lisavan | Dreamstime Stock Photos Spent most of the holiday yesterday working, of course. I didn’t mean to, I just sat down to tinker with a scene that had been giving me trouble and…the next thing I knew, it was lunchtime. After shambling out to eat, I decided I had too much momentum to …
September 3, 2018
A Concrete Win
I needed a win, so I took Saturday entirely off working and bent my back to the remaining seventeen bags of concrete. In other words, I finished the damn patio. It took most of the day and my legs are still rubbery–each bag is 80lbs dry and mixing that shit with water is thankless work–but …
