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NaNo Camp – Day 1

Diamond Thieves Face Off and also there will be sex

Today: 435

Total: 2,246

“I know who you are,” Theo said smugly. “You’re the Ghost.”

Clayton was gobsmacked, yet again. The newspapers had started calling him that back in 2004, when the news of his first big heist had hit the headlines. Clayton had walked out of a jewellery store in New York with six million dollars in precious stones in his pockets, and the theft hadn’t been detected until two days later when the store opened after a long weeke...

Busy Week

Hoo, boy, what do I write about? My yarn boss is on vacation this week, so I’ve been holding down the yarn fort and working way more days than usual, while also showing up and being useful and effective at my office job. But on Tuesday it was mad slow at the store, so I got to spend most of the day fiddling around and actually writing! It was a treat. I wrote about a thousand words on my draft for the Love Has No Boundariesevent for the M/M Romance Group on Goodreads. Diamond thieves! So far...

Happy Vernal Equinox!

My granddad owns a house on the shore in Delaware, and every year we have to come down to open it up, turn on the water and heat, etc. etc., so that it’s fit for habitation and renting during the summer. My mother decided at the last minute that taking two of our four cats was a good idea, because a) we have a really old cat that needs a lot of attention and b) she wants another of our cats to get used to riding in the van so he can drive across the country to Portland, OR, when the time come...

Liberty State Fiction Writers – Create Something Magical Con

Phew! I don’t want to call it thebest weekend ever, because I did have to drive home and go to work the next day, but it certainly made for a damn fine Saturday. This being my first Writer Con ever, I was lucky to have Tere Michaelsand Elle Brownleeas my guides into the world of All Things Romance Writers And So On!

The first panel I went to was “Pitching 101″ for newbs like me, which was very valuable. Lesson learned: only use one sentence, only use characters’ professions, always use exciti...

The 300 Word Day

I read an interview with a favorite author recently wherein she described her writing goal per diem was not a quantity of words, but a quantity of hours. Four to five was best, she said, for her to really feel like she’d made progress.

Ye gods. The jealousy that welled up inside me.

I’ve also stumbled across some writers who scoff at the 2,000 word goal of NaNoWriMo writers, flaunting that they write 2k as a warm up to a regular day.

I work two jobs, and that’s before I put in the time it would...

New Site!

Guys! I have a website! And it has a domain!

Please come find me at Elinor Gray - Author (.com)

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Daily Dose contract

Got a lovely email this morning! As I was preparing for my grueling 2.5 mile run in the hesitant snow, I opened up my email buddy and found a “yes please” from Dreamspinner Pressabout the short story I submitted back on the first. The story is Hard D, originally an AU fic, and still a story about Ultimate Frisbee romance that is one third super esoteric Ultimate jargon, one third party scene, and one third college boy on college boy action. I figured if they were going to reject it, it would...

i have a funny weekend

My two day jobs line up in a strange way: on Fridays, when everyone else is looking forward to the weekend, I’m showing up for my first day of work. On Wednesdays, when most people celebrate hump day, I’m lounging around on my day off. Nights out become nights in, and Mondays are that torturous almost-there day. I wish I worked at the yarn shop all five of my days. The office job isn’t so bad, but the yarn job is my calling. Day-job-ily speaking. Someone has to pay me to show up.

That said, I...

an experiment in persistence

I could promise in public and convince myself that I’m going to post more, but nothing will actually solve this problem besides just plain posting more. So let’s call it an experiment in persistence. Part of me saysyou don’t have anything interesting to say, but if that were true I wouldn’t call myself a writer.

On Tuesday I went down to D.C. to see a fiction professor from college do a reading. She’s really hot right now in the literary world, and it was a real joy to get to see her in action...

Put the Records On While I Pour – a Christmas short

Stephen took a careful sip of the mulled wine, not sure what to expect. His parents were hot cocoa and whiskey people in the winter, but Geoff had assured him that he would like it. The spicy aroma tickled his nose and the heat of the wine made him tentative. Still, the first sip tingled on his tongue and made him smile.

Geoff caught the smile as he was coming back into the room, his arms full of beat up old boxes. He grinned. “Didn’t I tell you?”

Stephen lowered the mug and nodded. “You were r...