Xandra | March 8, 2010
But I swear I had a great excuse. I had a :gasp!: computer issue (easily solvable, I love linux and the community that supports it *in instantaneous realtime, no matter how late it is!*). Computer, easily surmountable. Two sick kids with tummy bugs…not so much. There is no support community or quick fix for that [...]
Xandra | February 26, 2010
This week I submitted the sequel to Jolly Rogered.
I’ve been submitting manuscripts since 1998. Granted, I write slow, and many of my submissions have been to traditional publishing (and via snailmail, to boot), so it’s not as if glaciers move much slower than the process. Every time I do this, I get a little thrill [...]
Xandra | January 29, 2010
I confess that I am one of those people that literally loathes schedules. My mother is sort of a martinet when it comes to scheduling, and bless her heart for it, ran my household with an iron alarm clock while I was growing up. As a result, I decided to reinvent the wheel [...]
Xandra | January 22, 2010
Every author writes because he or she has something to say to the world. That message may be as small as “chocolate birthday cake is the world’s most perfect food” or as large as “can’t we all just get along…to survive the zombie apocalypse” but it’s that message that keeps us going through recalcitrant characters, [...]
Xandra | January 15, 2010
It snowed last week. A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow. And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs. But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front [...]
Xandra | January 9, 2010
New Year’s Resolutions are a crapshoot. Everybody’s enthusiastic in January, until about the 18th hits and the post-holiday boredom sets in. That’s about the time the exercise machine starts becoming a clothes hanger, the shiny toys have run out of batteries/been stepped on/the teeny-tiny little pieces have been vacuumed up, and the leftovers have all [...]
Xandra | December 19, 2008
Okay, so it’s been two days and I’ve already opened up Writer’s Cafe and pulled up my pinboard/scrapbook to work on something that won’t leave me alone. Or rather, now that the M/M is giving my brain a rest, the other works that I’ve been putting off in favor of it are clamoring to be [...]
Xandra | December 15, 2008
Wow. I mean, can I just bask in it for a moment? After 18 long months of neuroses, rewrites, and frustration, I’ve finally gotten my M/M ero-rom out the door to the publisher. Why did it take me so long? Damned if I know. Forty thousand words ain’t that much. Although writing three times that [...]
Xandra | April 10, 2008
Normally, I’m not a huge plotter. I will have a scene focused in my mind, or sometimes a character, or more often, a setting (heavens help me then because I have to figure out what kinds of characters will fit in that setting, and who they are. If I have a character in mind, I’m [...]
