Ardellis | February 27, 2007
I’m not so sure that telling lie after lie, especially to someone who carries a sword and doesn’t quite trust you already, is really the best way to save your own life. I’m having a hell of a hard time convincing one of my characters of that, though.
Ardellis | January 19, 2007
I know people who are huge readers of SFF who have never read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Some of them have tried and pronounced his dense, description-laden prose “boring.” Some have heard this pronouncement from others and shied away because of it. And this breaks my heart, because LotR was an omnipresent [...]
Ardellis | December 23, 2006
Why is it that I always find something I’ve been looking for (1) after I’ve given up actively trying to find it, and (2) when I really can’t justify buying it?
I stumbled across this while looking for information on a completely different weapon: Fighting with the Quarterstaff.
Ardellis | December 6, 2006
I’m wondering how hard it would be to make a flintlock explode in someone’s hands. You know, in a really bad way. And I wonder how much damage it would do. Time to do some research. Yay, research!
Ardellis | December 5, 2006
We have a houseguest. Our friend Kate is in town from Providence for a local theater gig and is crashing with us for the week. Consequently, we did nothing but housework over the weekend. Our apartment is cleaner than it’s been in months, and I’m feeling guilty now because I haven’t touched my novel in [...]
Ardellis | October 7, 2006
Sometimes the writing thing scares me. Sometimes things come out of my fingertips that make me wonder if I am who I really think I am. There are a couple of scenes that I’ve written for Legacies that have done that to me. Writing them was wrenching, because I really do adore the POV character [...]
Ardellis | June 6, 2006
Absolute Write is back! Huzzah! (Ignore that note on the front page — the forums are back as of yesterday.)
Word is that Jenna has lost a good chunk of change in this fiasco, so if you hang out on AW and can afford to do it, contributions would be very appropriate.
Ardellis | May 27, 2006
I’ve added a new link: They Must Need Bears, which is the Livejournal of Elizabeth Bear. You have to love a writer who blogs like this:
Someday, I am going to publish a chapbook of all the sex scenes I’ve cut out of things. It will be nothing but pages and pages of in-character smut.
Ardellis | May 25, 2006
Teresa caught it before I did, because I usually hang out on the Absolute Write forums only on the weekends, but my favorite writers’ board is gone .
I’ve been a member of AW for over a year now. Gods, the Learn Writing with Uncle Jim thread (led by Jim Macdonald) in the Novels forum was [...]
