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Elijah’s Chariot, my most recent work in progress. It’s done and one day, I swear it shall be revised.

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NaNoWriMo Fail, But Makeout Win?

By on 1 Dec 2011
Their first touch was gentle, and in it Sumire could taste his hesitation and fear. That first kiss was a question, a request for permission, chaste and sweet and not a little shy. They broke apart for the space of a breath, noses still nuzzled against each other’s cheeks, their lips still clinging as though reaching for an answer.

“I…”

She captured that question before it escaped his parted mouth with her own, breathing her answer into his. He deepened the kiss, and she met his ardor with her own. For every little nudge she felt, she pressed back harder, and she felt his kisses like a wish from him, like begging, and she could only respond yes, yes, yes with her own longing. Yes, please, yes, yes, yes…
The Education of Sumire Min

So I completely and utterly failed NaNoWriMo this year as I only managed to squeeze out about 18.5K. I don’t know how people can write more than 1000 words a day, every day. I just don’t. I burn out. On a good day I’ll get out about 1500 words, but the next day I’ll be [...]

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A Prequel

By on 6 Apr 2011
As Miss Ackerley gestured grandly towards her interior decoration, Sir Corliss recalled with a start Theodora's rather unsettling habit of placing a possessively plump hand on his arm (sometimes it was other appendages) at unexpected moments. He tried to extricate himself from her grip discreetly but to no avail.
From a middle-grade incarnation of my novel

Back when I first started writing ELIJAH’S CHARIOT (or whatever the hell my work-in-progress will actually be called), it was a middle grade novel. I found the old file again and got a little nostalgic. There are some stylistic differences between YA and middle grade, but what I like about my middle grade incarnation is [...]

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Yes, I’m Writing

By on 24 Mar 2011
Children were forgiven and forgotten, but young ladies were fallen. She picked at the frayed cuffs on Raphael's sleeves, wondering when she had gone from forgotten to fallen, wondering if she could ever return to that prelapsarian state.
Work in progress

Yeah, it’s from my novel. It’s a darling. Meaning it will probably get killed at some point. Still, I think this might be a fun exercise. All you writers have darlings? Little snippets of writing you absolutely love and would be resistant to parting with? Post them here!

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Write What You Know

By on 11 May 2009

I’ve been thinking lately about the old adage write what you know, mostly because I either live with or know people with fascinating life stories who are also writers. (I’m looking at you, Russ, and you, Wicked Cool Riley. Plz to be writing your memoirs immediately and sending me the manuscripts. Kthx.) I, on the [...]

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My Interests Are Growing Up

By on 25 Jan 2009

The older I get, the more and more contemporary my interest in various time periods become. When I was a child, I had a fascination with the Victorian era and the fin de siècle but more and more I’m finding myself fascinated with the early-middle decades of the 20th century. For Elijah’s Chariot, my research consisted mostly of the events/culture from 1912-1921. For Jane Eyre with Werewolves (which still needs a better title), I’ve been focusing on 1928-1932. For The Ballad of Bonny Read or Skydiving Pirates (I really do suck at titling things), I’m looking at 1938-1945. [...]

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Begone, Inner 16-Year-Old!

By on 24 Jan 2009

I am having one of those days in which my writing just sucks. As in, There’s no point to my story, the entire thing is flawed, I should go ahead and give up now, and never ever write again to preserve the honour of my family.

My inner melodramatic 16-year-old occasionally makes an appearance. [...]

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Put A Ring On It

By on 15 Jan 2009

I got actually a little revision done on Elijah’s Chariot yesterday, but I think I need to muddle out some other themes/issues before progressing with it.

Things I Have Learned About My Novel Over the Course of Revision

  1. This is not a story about saving the day; this is a story about three children struggling to stay friends through impending civil war.
  2. This is not a story about good vs. evil; this is a story about finding your moral centre in the midst of compelling, but wrong extremes.
  3. This is also a book about parents (or the lack thereof): good ones, bad ones, false ones, true ones.
  4. Miracles are not only linked to a state of Grace, but to strong emotions as well; love above all. (I know, I know, how Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling of me.)

The first was a bit of a revelation for me. [...]

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Day Two: Have Become Welsh

By on 18 Dec 2008

I made the perhaps not-so-unusual discovery that I’ve Pavlov-trained myself to revise only when I’ve got a certain playlist on iTunes going. In the past few days I’ve been playing my entire library on random and the resultant mental space was scattered. I’ve also discovered that even my iTunes has a musical preference; it’s quite enamoured of Morrissey/The Smiths and Pete Doherty/Babyshambles. (I find this interesting as Pete was always the Smiths fan while Carl was the Velvet Underground fan.) Morrissey’s all right, but Babyshambles is a huge hit-or-miss. And most of their songs tend to be misses.

This morning I awoke and was determined to work on revisions and put on my Elijah’s Chariot playlist and lo and behold, I am immediately able to work. Amazing. [...]

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