Writing Update

Lots of posts about food lately, not so many about writing. I thought the problem might be the lack of pictures to go with writing posts, so I cooked one up:

Type Faster

I’ve been typing away at my current WIP, and the thing refuses to end. It’s at 11,000 words, which for me is incredibly long (I generally write stories in the 2-5k range), and I still have a ways to go until the ending. This is new territory for me, not only in overall length of the story, but …

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Experiments in Ice Cream

First to Freeze

Cinnamon Brown Sugar Ice Cream

After coming out of the ice cream machine, the mixture has to ‘set’ in the freezer for at least a couple hours, so I haven’t had a chance to taste the finished product yet. Preliminary tasting (i.e., eating what was left in the machine after transferring most of the ice cream to the freezer) suggests that this was a successful experiment. Dessert today will be ice cream, probably with sliced nectarine.

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Fall in Texas, Grits

Fall in Texas is strange. The days are getting shorter, and some of the leaves have started falling off the trees, but the high temps are still almost 90 degrees. Coming from Seattle, my idea of fall involves cold rain, dark cloudy skies, and wearing a jacket.

More food photography:

Grits and Eggs

Now, normally I’d call this creamy polenta, but seeing as how I’m in Texas, I think I’m obliged to call it grits. (I _think_ technically the difference between the two is in the grind of the cornmeal. …

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Submission, WIP

sub#64 – to Writers of the Future (my 8th sub there).

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My WIP is holding steady at 7000 words. I’m not stuck, I have a fair idea of what comes next. But for the past couple days, instead of writing the next chunk, I’ve gotten stuck writing and re-writing the beginning. Not the whole 7000 words, just the very beginning. Mostly the first paragraph. I think I’ll limit myself to an hour on the first paragraph this afternoon, and then force myself to work on some later portion of the story.

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* sigh *

Two Three recent rejections:

R54 – a 1-day friendly rejection from Lone Star Stories
R55 – a 57-day rejection with mostly positive comments from Strange Horizons.
R56 – a 5-day rejection, with comments, from Shimmer.

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My current WIP is turning out rather longer than I expected — 6k words at the moment, and showing no signs of wrapping up any time soon. But I’m still liking the project, and I’ve decided to just let it do whatever it wants to do. If it’s massively too long when I’m finished, I can always cut it down. …

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