From Twitter 06-22-2010

• 10:06:17: I want to go to this conference so much! http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/newsevents/shewolf/
  
• 10:06:22: RT @QueeredFiction: SILVER KISS review "...the sort of stand out, inclusive fiction that more collections should have on their shelves." ...
  
• 10:06:55: @TezMillerOz Africa floats, everything else sinks. Oh, and directly beneath road surfaces, there's nothing but vast chasms
  
• 13:06:55: Got a bit of work done on the next Urban Wolf book on my lunch break. Hopefully will be even more productive after work
  
• 13:07:30: I don't have that nagging sense of "this is boring and people will be bored" that I had before, which must be a good sign, right?
  
• 19:04:39: RT @CarinaPress: RT @BooksOnBoard: FREE EBOOK TIME! Retweet by 12am est to win 3 @CarinaPress Titles of your choosing! Good luck!
  
• 19:05:11: RT @kazmahoney: eeeee!!!!! RT @booksmugglers The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney has a cover! AND WHAT AN AWESOME COVER IT IS: http://tinyur ...
  
• 19:05:42: @kazmahoney That is a stunningly beautiful cover! It's going to look great on my bookshelf ^_^
  
• 19:09:04: Why are there Pringles crumbs wedged in my laptop keyboard? I haven't even eaten any Pringles lately
  
• 19:16:30: Has anyone ever written a story about a faery working as a glamour model? The pun potential amuses me greatly
  
• 19:19:00: @Scarimonious My laptop screen is always filthy no matter how much I clean it. I blame the economy
  
• 19:26:43: @Scarimonious Most cunning. I settle for being confused and looking for Pringles
  
• 19:26:59: @AndreaBlythe It seems so obvious! I feel a short story coming on...
  
• 23:58:09: Pandorum is awesome, Doomsday is baffling. Films about devastating plagues and cannibalism shouldn't be so disappointing!
  

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Writing Meme Day 21 - I have no maternal instincts

21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?

No. I mean, yes, obviously, some of my characters do have children in that most of my characters have parents, and sometimes their parents feature in the stories. Ayla, for example, has parents who crop up in WOLF STRAP and SILVER KISS. But I think this question means "do any of your main characters have small children?" in which case the answer is no.

I think this is the one facet of my own personality that infects my characters to one degree or another. I have no interest in having kids and have no maternal instincts whatsoever. None of my characters do either. I imagine that some of them would make good parents - Vince and Joel, particularly, but I don't honestly see it happening to any of them.

( Questions under the cut )

She-Wolf Conference

I want to go to this so very much.

Can you imagine? Two whole days of nothing but female werewolves! Talks about she-wolves in urban fantasy, in cinema, and there's even a talk on shapeshifting and queer activism, which would be so relevant for the Urban Wolf books! EEE! I NEED TO GO!!! I cannot use enough exclamation marks! Plus the whole thing is in Manchester, so it's an excuse to visit The North! Yay!

Registration deadline is August, so I have just over a month to figure out the finances. Conference registration plus ticket to Manchester plus accommodation = no new books for Nome all summer, but it would be so worth it. I might try selling a kidney again, although I had no takers last time...

"Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over."*

*Hunter S Thompson

Okay, so after all that angst and hair-pulling, I have clawed my way to 5k on BLOOD HUNT. I definitely made the right decision to write this book instead of BAD DOGS, but today was one of those days where you have to fight for every word. I'm not a great believer in The Muse, or even Writer's Block, but whatever it is that lets you turn blank pages into a book, I struggled with it today.

Anyway. Never mind. The important thing is I'm catching up with myself, and I actually like what I'm writing, which makes all the difference.

 

5162 / 70000 words. 7% done!

And just to prove I'm writing, here's a snippet from tonight's efforts:

( Snikt! )