More painting set
Little sleep.
Journal
Painting the set
I spent today painting the set. Then I came into town to meet up with some folks. Details later, when I’m not so tired.
Watching Arabian Nights
I got to watch a rehearsal of Arabian Nights today. The puppets look fabulous and the actors are doing a really good job. Everyone says nice things about the set, but I naturally have some concerns. I’ll get to talk to the TD tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve just come back from a very nice dinner with
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Chattanooga airport
I’m sitting in the Chattanooga airport on my way to New Jersey. McCarter Theater is bringing me up to talk about the Arabian Nights set. It’s built, thank goodness, but there are some questions so Chris Parks, the director, wants me to come watch a rehearsal and meet with the TD. I’ll come back to
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Waiting for Rain, revised
Steve Savile went through Waiting For Rain and really helped me see the pacing problems and the places where my main character wasn’t active enough. Not to mention some clarity issues. He read it and just shouted (not really) questions at me as they occurred to him. I would fix the passage in question and
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LeeCon – Day 3
Yeah. So, I don’t know what I was thinking when I thought I would drive home every night to Chattanooga. We’re having way too much fun. It’s 2 a.m. and we’re just going to bed. We watched the newest Dr. Who episode. May I say, I am such a geek. I was a huuuuge Dr.
LeeCon – Day 2
I’m tired and I’m having fun. My writing brain is getting a good swift charge from the company at hand.
LeeCon
I’m at a Codex writer’s mini-conference in Murfreesboro, TN this weekend. I had planned on driving back to Chattanooga tonight, but several of the other writers are having horrible travel karma. My share of the travel karma, was fairly mild. I arrived, got out of the car to say “hello” and the door swung shut
Editing
Today, besides writing more of the Landon Manor story, I also did some serious editing of Waiting for Rain. I’ve taken it from 9900 words to 8875. That’s feeling like a much more reasonable length.
Shimmer, Winter 2006
Snuggle up with the winter issue of Shimmer and sink into the heat of Alabama with Sell Your Soul to the Devil Blues by Tom Pendergrass, pick the brain of multiple Hugo-award winning editor Ellen Datlow, and listen to the Silent Folk in Jay Lake’s The Black Back-Lands. There’s more: the nursing home adventures in
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The Case of Landon Manor
I began work on a new short with the working title The Case of Landon Manor. It’s a supernatural mystery set in 1924. My main character is a glamorous young heiress, who also happens to be a medium. I’m 2000 words into it and having a lot of fun. Here’s the first beginning, although that’s
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Waiting for Rain
I’m pleased to report that I finished Waiting for Rain, finally. I thought I would never reach the end of this short story. I’m not even sure why it took so long. But, thanks to my New Year’s resolution, I wrote the last 4000 words in a week. Rob is going to help me with
Groucho and Bradbury
Ray Bradbury appeared on You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Groucho: What kind of job do you have Ray? Ray Bradbury: I’m a writer. Groucho: What kind of rider? Pony Express, motorcycle, or what? Ray Bradbury: Writer, W-R-I-T-E-R. Groucho: Oh, that’s very refreshing–a writer who can spell. Excerpt from The Essential Groucho by
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Rocket Team Vatsaas Bert Race
I’m too astounded to frame witty commentary to go with this. Apparently, there’s a group that makes rockets of Bert from Sesame Street.
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Check!
In the world of small things that excite me, we just received a bunch of mail forwarded from our home in Portland. In the box of mail was my check from Strange Horizons for Portrait of Ari. There’s something about getting paid that makes me feel like I really did something. I’ll get all excited