Archive for April, 2004



Nothing much

I’m blogging mainly to avoid update pokes from Pen. :-)
I’m at 56K words today, which is less than I wanted. I’ve been very distracted this last week.
An editor called me last week about CEing an Alison Baird–he said he thought I would be interested because she’d put in a lot of work on the language [...]

Halfway!

Woo-hoo! I hit the 50K mark on my rough draft this morning! I am stoked!

Getting Stuck

Well, I got stuck terribly this week in the middle of my novel. I’d wandered far enough off of my outline that I couldn’t figure out what should happen next. I sat down and planned out a new direction and new outline, though, and am going to try to make the halfway point by Sunday!
In [...]

Smut!

My, I’ve been having fun today! I’ve been writing smut *all day long*!
Check out this contest, everyone: http://www.desdmona.com/contest.asp
Two hundred possible bucks for three hundred words! Get to it, folks! I have written three nice little erotica pieces to submit. Three hundred words! What do you lose if you don’t win? :)



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Deanna I'm a freelance copyeditor specializing in fantasy and science fiction. SF/F novels I have copyedited have been finalists for (and have sometimes won) the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Endeavour, Golden Spur, John W. Campbell Memorial, Quill, Locus, Philip K. Dick, British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. In 2007 I became the first and only copyeditor ever short-listed for a World Fantasy Award.



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