Kelly McCullough's Blog, page 125

Not Writing = Vivid Dreaming = Need to Write

Sometimes people ask me where I get my ideas, or why I write. This is one part of the answer.

For a number of reasons I haven't been writing the past month and a half. First there was the post-book lull compounded by Laura needing a ton of help to get her department moved. Then there was the spring gardening madness which has to get done while the weather and the season are right. Now that that's all almost done, I'm starting to think about writing again, and boy do I need it.

I don't know about

Monday Morning WIP

I just finished turning the soil for a late-in-the-season garden project. My five year old son wants to have a victory garden like the Obamas, although, really, he explained that what he really wants in several acres of corn... but he has to make due with a small square of former yard for a few sunflowers, carrots, corn, peas, and beans.

After I finish posting here, I plan to continue work on my alter ego's young adult novel (due October 15) and enjoy the chilly, rainy day with some tea and toast

Friday Cat Blogging With Bonus Garden Blogging

Little cat owns big rug



Assume a spherical cat...



Is not your writing chair. Is mine!



Sunlight and cattow



Before picture of new side bed. Note birch in background and large expanse of grass front left.

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Practice: Six Words

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." -Ernest Hemingway

Personally, I find Hemingway's famous six-word story extremely inspiring, efficient, and full of pathos. It does what a good story must--connects to the reader's own sense of common humanity and relies upon that sensilbility to fill in the background of the story. There are few stories that can blossom from those six words that wouldn't touch us, move us--and that is, to my mind, an amazing feat.

Because of that, I try to hone my own craft by

David Eddings R.I.P.

David Eddings died last night. The Belgariad was one of two series that I hauled with me on my Arizona Renaissance Festival odyssey back when I was still in theater. The other being the first couple of Wild Cards books. I'd read the Pawn of Prophecy the week before taking off and I wanted to see how it ended. Spending the next two months living in a tent in the desert without the bulk of my library meant that all of those books got reread a couple of times and imprinted them pretty deeply on my

Catch of the Day

"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible."

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Monday Morning WIP Open Thread

Hi All,

Beginning to resurface now. The MythOS book launch swallowed big chunks of the last two week and what it didn't was eaten by gardening which has to get done as soon as the weather allows. The baby lilac hedge now has a moat of wood chips surrounding it that's roughly 65' long and 3' wide. There's a new 150 square foot garden bed on the west side of the house and it's about half full of new plants and transplants. Still need to get the rest of the plants in and put down newspaper and chip

Friday Cat Blogging With Bonus Garden Blogging

I am not in the sun and I blame you



Sun, ahhh!



I was happy in the sun, but now I must ask: What is your bidding my master?*



Sun! x 3



Iz my blanket, go 'way!



And: Go spring!



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SFNovelists Interviews Dave Williams

The launch interview for Dave's latest, BURNING SKIES, is up now on SFnovelists, featuring him and his cat being cross-examined.[image error]

MythOS!

IT'S OUT!



*commences running around like a cranially-deprived chicken*

Launch Interview

The first chapter of MythOS can be sampled online: Chapter 1. Or if you want to buy the book now it’s available both on paper and electronically: Kindle, Mobipocket, Indiebound.org, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon

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