Hi to all my followers,
There's a tab here for The Inkwell, a story I co-wrote with someone. That someone recently requested all sections of the story under her name be removed.
As doing so would gut the story such that what remained made no sense, I opted to take The Inkwell private.
My apologies to anyone in the midst of reading it.
Showing posts with label Inkwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inkwell. Show all posts
07 December 2014
04 September 2014
New Inkwell Entry
I had today off from The Day Job. I planned to work on a short story that has a deadline of September 26. Instead I dithered. A lot. Reorganized my Safari bookmarks. Cleaned up the laptop desktop. Read over the stories and story fragments from two recent NaNoWriMo rebel years (2012 and 2013). Copied out the pieces that looked promising.
One of those stories was set in The Inkwell world. (See the tab at the top of this page. It's a story I wrote jointly with Dixiegirl, started during NaNo 2009). So I did a rough revision and posted it HERE.
That September 26 short story? No progress. I believe I have effectively spent my day in that well-known phenomenon: displacement activities. Well, it's not bedtime yet...
One of those stories was set in The Inkwell world. (See the tab at the top of this page. It's a story I wrote jointly with Dixiegirl, started during NaNo 2009). So I did a rough revision and posted it HERE.
That September 26 short story? No progress. I believe I have effectively spent my day in that well-known phenomenon: displacement activities. Well, it's not bedtime yet...
22 March 2013
Dithering
I can't settle on a blog topic, so here's a mix of stuff as it occurs to me.
Princess Cruises sends me emails with enticing sales. I dithered for weeks in late January/ early February about taking a 14 day trans-Atlantic cruise before finally deciding I'd buy a new computer and attend at least one writing conference instead.
About writing conferences: I'm going to WisCon, a science fiction writing convention. It's in Madison, Wisconsin. Shame they didn't name it MadCon ...
Another email from Princess Cruises. This time I only dithered for a few days (up until today, actually) about a 12 day cruise around the British Isles that includes England, Ireland and Scotland, even the Orkneys! Still need to buy that new computer, and this cruise, though shorter than the trans-Atlantic one, was half again more expensive. I guess because there are more ports. Really don't have that kind of money, but it sure is fun to dream.
I can't explain why this makes me so excited, but my blog got two hits from KERIBATI, someone searching on red imported fire ants. Hi, Keribati person! I sure hope Solenopsis invicta hasn't invaded your islands.
The Inkwell, a sort-of novel I wrote with a friend, is completely posted now - see tab at top of my blog here. There are 40 sections of roughly 2000 words each. We learned collaborating on a story can be so much fun it's amazing it's not illegal. Have a look if you're so inclined.
I really enjoyed the cruise to Alaska last year and hope one shows up in these sale emails that actually fits my budget. The sea, it is calling me ...
Three interchangeable responses to "You're a bitch!"
1. You say that like it's a bad thing.
2. Everyone has to have a hobby.
3. And?
On Monday I finished reading a book (The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond). Since then I've purchased three books (The Fire Ants by Walter Tschinkel; Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling; and Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear). My TBR pile will never disappear.
Perhaps I need a large writing project to keep my mind focused. (Rising Tide version 3 is out visiting Beta readers.) Without one ... ooooh shiny!
Princess Cruises sends me emails with enticing sales. I dithered for weeks in late January/ early February about taking a 14 day trans-Atlantic cruise before finally deciding I'd buy a new computer and attend at least one writing conference instead.
About writing conferences: I'm going to WisCon, a science fiction writing convention. It's in Madison, Wisconsin. Shame they didn't name it MadCon ...
Another email from Princess Cruises. This time I only dithered for a few days (up until today, actually) about a 12 day cruise around the British Isles that includes England, Ireland and Scotland, even the Orkneys! Still need to buy that new computer, and this cruise, though shorter than the trans-Atlantic one, was half again more expensive. I guess because there are more ports. Really don't have that kind of money, but it sure is fun to dream.
I can't explain why this makes me so excited, but my blog got two hits from KERIBATI, someone searching on red imported fire ants. Hi, Keribati person! I sure hope Solenopsis invicta hasn't invaded your islands.
The Inkwell, a sort-of novel I wrote with a friend, is completely posted now - see tab at top of my blog here. There are 40 sections of roughly 2000 words each. We learned collaborating on a story can be so much fun it's amazing it's not illegal. Have a look if you're so inclined.
I really enjoyed the cruise to Alaska last year and hope one shows up in these sale emails that actually fits my budget. The sea, it is calling me ...
Three interchangeable responses to "You're a bitch!"
1. You say that like it's a bad thing.
2. Everyone has to have a hobby.
3. And?
On Monday I finished reading a book (The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond). Since then I've purchased three books (The Fire Ants by Walter Tschinkel; Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling; and Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear). My TBR pile will never disappear.
Perhaps I need a large writing project to keep my mind focused. (Rising Tide version 3 is out visiting Beta readers.) Without one ... ooooh shiny!
01 March 2013
The Inkwell
Starting in December of 2009, my friend Cindy and I co-wrote a novel. We didn't plan to. We were having fun creating a story with some very cooperative characters and it sort of got out of hand. Initially we thought we'd do it for about a month. It ended up keeping us busy for more like four months.
We were posting on line as we wrote, in a thread in the National Novel Writing Month forums called The Smoking Pen. That thread is set up for cooperative writing, and in the beginning other people were contributing as well. When the story grabbed us and wouldn't let go, Cindy (who is known as Dixiegirl in NaNoLand), started a separate thread called The Inkwell.
In 2012, Cindy set up a writing group consisting of folks who met doing NaNoWriMo (The Asylum: you don't have to be crazy, just committed). On several occasions, The Inkwell has come up in conversations as an example of this or that. Many in the group hadn't read it. I'd say I should post that some time.
Well, that time has come.
I'm posting it.
That's why there's a new tab at the top here on my blog. The Inkwell tab will always take you to the initial background post, whether there's a new entry or not. On the right, under Archive, is the list of entries. They're numbered sequentially and each is roughly 2000 words long. Thanks to the magic of cookies, after you've read one the color should change and that can help you keep track of what you've seen.
I think the total length is about 70,000 words, so this will take a while. I posted a lot in the last few days, but I'll slow down now, to probably just one entry per day.
I hope you enjoy our story. We certainly had a lot of fun writing it.
We were posting on line as we wrote, in a thread in the National Novel Writing Month forums called The Smoking Pen. That thread is set up for cooperative writing, and in the beginning other people were contributing as well. When the story grabbed us and wouldn't let go, Cindy (who is known as Dixiegirl in NaNoLand), started a separate thread called The Inkwell.
In 2012, Cindy set up a writing group consisting of folks who met doing NaNoWriMo (The Asylum: you don't have to be crazy, just committed). On several occasions, The Inkwell has come up in conversations as an example of this or that. Many in the group hadn't read it. I'd say I should post that some time.
Well, that time has come.
I'm posting it.
That's why there's a new tab at the top here on my blog. The Inkwell tab will always take you to the initial background post, whether there's a new entry or not. On the right, under Archive, is the list of entries. They're numbered sequentially and each is roughly 2000 words long. Thanks to the magic of cookies, after you've read one the color should change and that can help you keep track of what you've seen.
I think the total length is about 70,000 words, so this will take a while. I posted a lot in the last few days, but I'll slow down now, to probably just one entry per day.
I hope you enjoy our story. We certainly had a lot of fun writing it.
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