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Archive for March, 2011

Inspiration

By Claire ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

I seem to be posting a lot lately, go figure. Writers get ideas out of everywhere and nowhere. The sound of a car in the street in the evening. A news story. The smell of bread. In the course of things, we turn ideas into stories that may or may not be available to read, [...]

Another story up

By Claire ⋅ March 25, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

I’ve added another story to my Writing page – something I wrote a while ago that started life as a comic script, and then I rewrote it as prose or whatever. I’ve broken it up into six easy to read parts with links in-between. I’ve realised that I seem to write a lot of steampunk [...]

Editing Hell

By Claire ⋅ March 24, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

I am there right now. The demons all carry copies of Strunk’s Elements of Style, and they’re poking me with fountain pens. At this point, I have written something like five different variations on the opening of the Novel, and I still can’t seem to get it right. My latest effort was written at four [...]

One to watch out for

By Claire ⋅ March 18, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Through a series of events that I’m actually not allowed to talk about yet (ooh, mysterious!), I got to read a work in progress by Josh Vogt. That lead to me wandering over to his site, and that lead to me reading his blog, and… well, you know how it goes. Whatever. I’m not sure [...]

Sketching repost

By Claire ⋅ March 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The last sketch of one of my characters in the Novel has gone mysteriously awry. I suspect the gremlins of WordPress ate it when I converted the blog over to the new site. Yeah, it’s kinda meh. I’m hardly Picasso, unfortunately. This is certainly not how I imagine her in my head, oh no. [...]

New short story – Hats

By Claire ⋅ March 11, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Alright, I’ve played enough TF2. Here’s the short story, as promised. Hats Do not laugh at the name. I save all my imagination for the writing, not so much the titles. Enjoy, or hate, or whatever.

Your daily dose of depression

By Claire ⋅ March 11, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

You know, I was actually going to write some whiny rambling on life, the universe and everything. Then I came to my senses and mentally slapped myself for being a pessimist. Like, what the hell, Claire?! When did you become such a drag? To hell with that, I say! So yeah. I’m thirty. I feel [...]

I got older

By Claire ⋅ March 9, 2011 ⋅ One comment

It’s now half eleven at night, and technically it’s still my birthday for another half hour. Today I’m the grand old age of thirty. I’m still not published, which is bumming me out. I got to spend my day working, because freelancers don’t get days off, not even for cake. I didn’t have cake, by [...]

The Writers’ Mafia

By Claire ⋅ March 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

John Scalzi has a great post up at the moment about how there’s some panic going on in young-adult writing circles (that’s for young adults, not by young adults) that somehow, somewhere, there’s a YA Mafia going around and keeping new authors down, presumably in an effort to keep all the glory and fortune for [...]