I have to read Glamour in Glass out loud. You can listen. Or rather, nine of you can. How so? It’s like this… Last week, I got the line edits for Glamour in Glass, the sequel to Shades of Milk and Honey the day after I finished writing The Transfigured Lady. Handy timing, that and […]
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This is what I made today. Teeth! They are made of medical grade thermal plastic and individually placed in Papa Fuzzy’s mouth. Basically, I cut a tiny piece of thermal plastic and lower it into boiling water with a slotted spoon. I pull it out to shape it using a flat surface and a scoring
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You might have to be a puppeteer to find this hilarious. Rest assured, that it is.
Funny video: Todd the Puppet Master Workshop #1 Read More »
That’s mostly true. I have some scenes that I know I need to go back and insert. And editing. Oh, lord, the editing. BUT the large plot arc is finished and I typed “The End.” For those of you who have been patiently reading along, I’ve posted the rest of the draft so you can
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I’m going to spend the rest of today puppet building but… while I’m locked in the basement, here is Chapter 28 of The Transfigured Lady draft.
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This weekend I went to the Oregon Regency Society’s annual picnic at Pittock Mansion. I will freely admit that I started attending last year for research. I wanted to wear the clothes and try the dancing and talk to people who knew the period. I discovered on the very first evening that I really liked
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Sometimes, when I’m writing I use brackets to keep myself from wandering off to research something Right Then. This results in things like the following sentence from my WIP. The upstairs parlour was [description of a nice Victorian room]. or sometimes, I just don’t want to think about it because I’ll lose the rhythm of
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So… not that I’m hinting in GIANT LETTERS or anything, but the Hugo ballot deadline is today and I have this story on the ballot… Votes are due in by Sunday, July 31, 2011, 11:59pm PDT. That’s, um tonight. Even if you waited until the last minute, you can at least read the short story
Ahem… The Hugo deadline is today. Read More »
I’m back from Seattle, where I had a lovely time visiting with writerly type folks. I took the train back. It was half an hour late pulling into Seattle, but made up time so we were only about fifteen minutes late arriving in Portland. Now… let me explain why I take the train instead of
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After a relaxing morning, I’m heading back from Seattle. Based on a picture of this pet, which author was I visiting?
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I came up on the train today to be a Mystery Muse at Clarion West. I didn’t want to mention that I was headed toward Seattle just in case the students — who should be writing — noticed that I was coming and guessed. Nisi Shawl and I chatted with them for a little over
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I just posted the draft of Chapter 26 of The Transfigured Lady, for those of you reading along. I’m in the process of writing Chapter 29 right now. In my outline, there are 31 chapters, but I’m looking at where I am and where I need to get and suspect that I will wind up
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While I was at the Nebulas, Jean Marie Ward interviewed me about fiction, puppetry and Regency costumes.
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Today I taught my first class via Google Hangouts and thought I’d share what I learned. This is a workshop that I teach on reading aloud and I’ve done it often enough that I felt like it was a good test case for the hangouts since I know what “normal” is for it. Registration —
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Boy, it’s amazing how much faster things go when I finally cut the subplot that wasn’t working. I’d really been bogging down and having trouble figuring out what the story was stalling on. Thanks to my intrepid alpha readers* I spotted the problem, excised it and things seem to be clipping along. Although I’m expecting
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