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I’m doing revisions on Lizardfic right now. Back in November, I posted that I thought the universe in this story was underdeveloped. Well, I’m starting to really feel like that’s no longer the case. I’m starting to feel like there could be a...

*yawn*

I’m so tired I keep opening the word document with my story in it, staring at it, and closing it again. I think maybe I should just go with it and go to bed early. After all, I was sick last week, and maybe Daylight Savings Time wasn’t the best time to...

*throws confetti*

I just finished the first draft of Lizardfic. Hooray! It’s hard SF (biology). I have no idea if Analog wants it. They might. I still need to flesh out the protagonist’s emotional arc and the like, but the first draft is done. It was like grinding out...

Aha!

I think I’ve got it! I’ve been slogging painfully through Lizardfic–it has a lot of world-building, and it’s all very complicated and I’ve been trying to work it in smoothly–and I just realized that… My protagonist isn’t...

Need an outline, STAT!

I wrote as far as I had in my script, which was basically setting up the premise. Page 13 is a good page to introduce the villains, right? Need an outline, STAT! On the other hand, I’m hearing character voices quip, which is a good sign, script-wise. And the...

Be your own enabler!

Hi, my name is Katherine, and I’m a self-censor. (“Hi, Katherine!”) It really slows me down, because I get bogged down in resisting what happens in a story. The first draft is not the time to decide whether something is kitsch, or too unpleasant, or...

Critters!

My “just not right” story is up at Critters and has already received three critiques. Unsurprisingly, the critiques suggest that I’ve again fallen prey to my most common uncritiqued story problem. I try not to spoon feed readers and let them figure...

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