Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 2
August 22, 2025
Grape-Leaf, Burnout
Hit the wall hard enough to leave a mark yesterday; I almost never nap, yet I remember very little of what happened past noon because ...
August 21, 2025
The Muse’s Price
Well, Memory Game is revised into a respectable first draft and sent off to my agent, so that’s crossed off the Giant To-Do List. Next ...
August 19, 2025
Flywheel, Repurposed
The seal on the revisions is well and truly broken. It’s a relief to use a different set of mental muscles; the flywheel of finishing ...
August 18, 2025
A Tad Wild-Eyed
Apparently I’m in the absurdity portion of book hangover, where my brain is doing deep-clean remodeling during REM sleep while the rest of me wanders ...
August 15, 2025
Gesture of Beginning
I’m generally not a fan of the season. Still, sometimes the miracle of sunlight powering our rocky little planet, the endless blue of the air-sea ...
August 14, 2025
Another Zero Down
Typed finis on the zero draft of Memory Game yesterday, and consequently am in twitching, staring book hangover today. The book weighs at 62k words ...
August 12, 2025
Creative Trust, Justified
Another very warm night, though not so restless–exhausting myself with 5.7k words on the thriller yesterday did much to knock me out, I think, especially ...
August 11, 2025
Endurance-Course Summer
Too warm for proper sleep, so there was a great deal of tossing and turning before I finally decided to slither out of bed toward ...
August 8, 2025
Bee In Thistle
A lovely pollinator in the thistle kindly stayed still long enough for me to get a snap. The rain refreshed many a blossom, though this ...
August 7, 2025
Last Exhausting Wicket
Just as I start getting into good daily wordcount, thinking I can relax a bit and that things are heading in the right direction, wham. ...
