Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 208

On Persistence

Crossposted to the Deadline Dames. I particularly liked Dame Toni's post this week.

First news, then your Friday writing post!

* MetaFilter saves two young women from (highly-probable) international sex trafficking. A drop in the bucket…but so completely awesome, and the best use of the Internet EVER.

* Events! On Sunday I'll be at PSU for the Ooligan Press Write to Publish event; on Tuesday I'll be at Beaverton Powell's with Ilona Andrews and fellow Dame Devon Monk. Details are on my events...

Publishing And Misplaced Punishment

Why was I up at 6am this morning? Oh, yeah. Getting the morning run out of the way so I can hit an early open climb at the rock wall. Yes, I am going to be attempting my first open climb. I hope nobody laughs at me and I hope I don't embarrass myself. It's bad enough that I'm going to be wearing capris. LOOK, I HAVE TO, ALL RIGHT? They allow freedom of movement and don't interfere with my foot and toeholds the way jeans or my yoga pants do.

Anyway.

John Scalzi, as usual, hits it out of the...

Events in May

On Saturday I had my second rock climbing class. This one was technique and actual climbing instead of the belay certification. Four hours of climbing. We took breaks, but still. I was completely hashed by the end of it–I kept dropping my car keys because my fingers wouldn't work right, and my knees are still bruised and skinned from the wall.

And I loved every second of it.

This week I've got copyedits and more wordcount to get out than I know what to do with. Fortunately it looks like the...

On The Importance Of Dreaming

Crossposted to the Deadline Dames, where you can find all sorts of cool stuff. Check us out!

It's Friday again, which means a Friday writing post. I am taking a break from the usual hard-headed practical advice in order to get A Bit Metaphysical Here. Hardheaded practicality will return next Friday.

While I do think that the majority of writing "advice" is impractical and a bit airy-fairy (which is why my own advice is weighted so heavily toward discipline and Getting The Damn Work Done)...

Touchup and Catch up

Well, the tattoos are done. I was just in for touchups and everything is damn beautiful, if I do say so myself. Pictures will be forthcoming once film is developed. (If you're curious, my artist is Sumer Johnson out at Dark Star. She does great work.)

Today is a gorgeous day, seventy degrees and sunny, with just enough of a gentle breeze. Since I'm writing a roadtrip that takes place in 90+ degree weather and nearly 100% humidity, it's a bit difficult. It's just hard to write angst and...

Burn

Just a quick in and out today, dear Readers. I managed to get 3K+ out yesterday, which means today is for trimming and cleaning and getting another respectable 2-3K of fresh wordcount. Yes, I'm aiming high. I finally have some emotional energy to burn, and it's all going to go into the work. Safest place for it, I think.

I've had a productive morning, including a wild fling with a double-tall skinny Cinnamon Dolce latte. It's ridiculous to say–unless I'm ordering just two shots and a little...

Resistance Is Futile

Hey, you. Yes, you, the novel I'm writing. Don't you dare stand there and look innocent. Listen up.

Resistance is futile. You will be written. We can do this the hard way–I'll keep going through blood and thunder, and we'll continue fighting all the way through zero draft and initial revision–or the easy way, where you just open up and let me see the whole thing. Either way, you will be written. I know vaguely what happens, and I have no compunction about throwing a wrench or two until the...

Random Friday Three

Crossposted to the Deadline Dames, where there was RT madness all last week! Go check it out!

It's Friday again! And I'm home. Which means a Friday writing post, right? Except I got nothin'. My brain is dry and bare as old Mother Hubbard's cupboard. My wordcount has shot up now that I'm not scraping the bottom of the barrel for emotional energy, and the current novels are in shoving matches over every spare neuron they can find. So this week I'm going to serve up three random things about...

My Excitement, It Is…Not So Exciting

Today is an overcoming-dragons type of day.

I hate driving in Portland. It's really not Portland's fault, even though I swear to God the streets change, especially at night. No, most of my stress comes from the fact that I rarely have access to a reliable car, so on top of the navigational stress (which I handle with the GPS that came with my cell phone, thank you God) there's also the will-my-vehicle-blow-up-on-me stress.

Today, however, I had a reliable car (thanks to Subaru Shawn, who...

Lucky Day

Just had a surprise visit from a very nice young man from the cable company. He found the source of the persistent problem I've been having, and fixed it in under twenty minutes. That was nice. Between that and the absolutely fantastic run I had this morning, today is apparently going to be lucky. Maybe I should buy a lotto ticket. *snort* Nah, I'll just settle for getting my wordcount and errands all done in today.

Here, have a link: Ilona Andrews explains further about ebook pricing and...