One last word cloud and I mean to be done until Dead Man’s Trigger is ready to go. I needed, I just had to see how the intensity of that final scene in Raven’s Tears came out as a word cloud. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Clicking on it should give you a larger image, so you can […]
Okay, so Tagul Word Clouds are plenty awesome, too. May I present their version of the word cloud for chapter one of Raven’s Tears. Wow. I may have to get that one done on a shirt, or mug. Michael and I had a moment as we were reviewing each other’s work for the day where we kinda looked up and […]
So. According to WordItOut, this is what the first chapter of Raven’s Tears looks like. I can like that a lot. There are meta-things to be discussed about the so-called “random” placement of those words, eh? This is probably my last reminder abou tthe 99 cent sale. It ends at midnight. If you don’t get yours for this stupidly cheap […]
Raven’s Tears featured on Goodkindles again yesterday. Did you see it? It’s still only 99 cents through midnight PDT – after that, it returns to its $4.99 list price. I think I’m going to look into posting an excerpt for loyal readers tomorrow. You’ve got that long to give me feedback on what you’d like to see. What would pique […]
This quote sums up like 90% of my depressive episodes, right here. Substitute “depression” for “darkness” and you have it. I wonder if this is true for writers in general, that our depressive bouts are generally due to being lost in an inner world without words? Still with that three-day sale – Raven’s Tears is doing well with Kindle lovers […]
As the title foretells, as of tonight we officially have a second draft for Dead Man’s Trigger. It is a “whirligig of time,” as the old playwright wrote, and well it should be. Everything in Iris’ world turns inside-out, by the end of it. My eyeballs are furry. I can’t write fast enough. Is it Dead Man’s Trigger, yet? AE […]
Michael and I worked into the night, last night, but we got the scene list done for the front end of Dead Man’s Trigger. Thinking. Feeling. Oh, okay. “Scheming and plotting,” if you’re going to be persnickety about it. Call it whatever you want, I don’t mind. Today, I get to resume WRITING the story. I couldn’t be any happier. […]
Michael and I are well into the second hack of this manuscript. We’re building a new scene list. We’ve tagged the scenes that don’t work (i.e, most of them, but it’s still very first-drafty!) with keywords that tell us how to rewrite them, later . We’ve put all edged implements under lock and key for the duration. Here’s a […]
I should have a link here for you to read a wiki entry about alchemy and its relationship to magic on Menelon, but that article isn’t ready yet. Stay tuned. AE Matson is an author, and Creative Director, at Metaphor Publications. She’s also a textile fiend, SFGiants fan, aspiring Buddha, RPGer, tech-geeky, crone, corsair. It’s all about the stories. What’s […]
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. – Salman Rushdie Coming in April/May 2015.
