“Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speed boat / Close your eyes… breath… ladle into that barrel of monkeys you call a head and scoop out an image monkey / Now let that image monkey drive a speed boat, and you, you water ski behind it / Stay behind the image and [...]
31Dec08
“Neutral Zone”: Judgement Day
At 10:41am ET the envelope containing the Neutral Zone manuscript, cover letter, plot summary and self-addressed stamped envelope for the return notification went into the postal system. Next stop: Random House for the Twenty-Sixth Annual Delacorte Press Contents for a First Young Adult Novel. Yes, I made the entry deadline! (Yes, on the left is [...]
November 30 marked the two year birthday of Neutral Zone. It was on that day that I finished the first draft of the novel as part of the 2006 National Novel Writing Month. In July of this year, the third draft came to a close as I’d finally written the story I wanted to tell. [...]
I opted out of NaNoWriMo this year so I could focus on my 2006 NaNo project, Neutral Zone, along with a short story that’s due this week. The short story is for Nerdvana, an anthology that hits stores in Fall 2009. The collection focuses on nerds and geeks. To quote part of the call for [...]
11Jul08
200 Pages, 107,000 Words
I started working on Neutral Zone in November 2006 for National Novel Writing Month. During that month I churned out a bit more than 50,000 words and had the foundation for the story. During 2007 I consistently wrote a couple mornings a week and by the time 2008 started I was on to draft number [...]
25Mar08
Neutral Zone update
I haven’t blogged about the novel in a while, but I am cranking on that third draft. I managed to write a fair amount this past weekend, about 2 to 3 hours each day Friday through Sunday. I’d day I’m about half done. I like what I’ve done to give the story a linear timeline [...]
23Dec07
When Your Novel Comes to Life…
It’s been a while since I’ve written about it, but I am still working on Neutral Zone, my novel about two high school hockey players who fall in love and come out during their senior year. It’s still in second draft and coming along pretty well. I did get distracted from it while I did [...]
I officially signed up this morning to do the National Novel Writing Month challenge for this year. So, during the month of November, I’m going to churn out a 50,000 word (minimum) novel. Last year I succeeded and created the first draft of Neutral Zone, a story about two high school hockey players who fall [...]
13Jun07
“Mindgames” Accepted!
“Mindgames” the story that narrowly missed getting into Superqueeroes got accepted this week into Project for a New Mythology, a quarterly literary journal with a stance on artistic social mindfulness. The issue with “Mindgames” gets printed later this month, so I’m very excited to have my first non-The First Line credit. Thanks to Brian for [...]
23Apr07
What’s Going on With My Writing
A few days ago, Will wrote about what was going on with his writing, so I thought I’d give an update of my own… I read on the Superqueeroes blog that the manuscript is off to the publishers. I’m guessing that probably lowers my chance a bit more on getting into this edition. So, “Mindgames” [...]
