I haven’t posted much of late, and it’s easy for that to be a self-perpetuating cycle.  It goes something like this:  “I need to post, but since I haven’t posted, a quick post won’t do.  I need to post something really funny/insightful/momentous/amazing, to make it up to my blog readers that I haven’t been posting.  Since I don’t have anything like that just now, I’ll have to post later.”

And the cycle continues.

So, in order to prove what an independent thinker I am (this is your insightful bit) I’m going to just post a bunch of random happenings.  First on the agenda, I have almost finished the latest round of rewrites on 13 Demon Days.  Should be finished by the end of the week.  I’ve also come up with my 25 words-or-less elevator pitch for the novel.

It’s about twins who’re the black sheep of the magic world.  They need to face down a demon, save the world, and clear their name.

What do you think?  I’m reasonably pleased with it, and have to give my nod to the folks at Upstart Crow for nudging me into writing it. (This concludes our momentous part)

In other writing news, I’ve been asked to assist in teaching Caleb Warnock’s online Writing in Depth classes (yep, this is the amazing bit) and will be starting the first class on May 17th.  I’m actually really excited to get to teach the Plot Shop workshop he’s outlined, because I think it does a great job of condensing down the plotting process and helps writers quickly discover if their material will be compelling enough to sustain a novel.

And since I’ve neglected you all for so long, I’ll leave you with a pic of me, bonding with my turkey poult.  We were having a bit of a discussion about whether it had to stay in the play pen/chick coop.  Can you tell which of us is winning?

 

(Okay, so maybe a lame attempt at funny.  But at least I got a post up!)