I have a Thing for names. I think it has a lot to do with having the most common girl’s name of my generation (yes, I am a Jennifer, and no, I don’t like being called that): I looked it up once at this app they have at the Social Security site, where you can [...]

Oh, have I ever got a lot to do next year. Onward!

I do a lot more of these in my personal blog, but it’s appropriate here, this time around. These are the first lines of everything I’m working on right now (minus the script). There’s some fanfic in there too: I’m in thrall to a new obsession, and it manifests itself in fic.
Untitled Dean/Castiel sequel:
Sam slept [...]

I’m trying to form some Really Deep Thoughts on plotting, but the trouble is, my thoughts on the subject amount to this:
One: What does your character want?
Two: What prevents your character from getting what he wants?
This is in my notes from the last few days while I’ve been pondering and plotting: What a character wants [...]

I’ve added a calendar utility to the website. I’ll list things like release dates, contest deadlines and events like hosting the torquere_social community on Livejournal there.
It’ll be bare for a while. I’m just writing this month. (Twelve thousand words on the next San Francisco novel, kids. I’m thrilled to bits.)

July: movie rough draft: seven pages. It’s been seven pages since last week. But at least that’s seven more than I had in June.
August: the Four of Cups finished and sent! Which means August will be more movie and working on the Leo-Stuart story.
September: More of the same. Polish the movie to a fine sheen.
October: [...]

I realized yesterday morning that I have nothing else scheduled to come out this year. Alas, alas.

July: movie rough draft, which I know I’ve been saying for months but this time I mean it. My partner wants to take it to a production company in October. I need to stop flailing about it and just [...]

March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft. STATUS: Well . . . I got about 10,000 words into the rough draft and then it all petered out.
April-May: the movie rough draft. STATUS: Still planning on this. I’ve decided to participate in Script Frenzy for inspiration. I have a file box full of primary and secondary sources [...]

I see from my web stats that somebody’s been searching for more news about upcoming releases, so here’s what’s coming up.

Something Beautiful will be out later this year. This is the next of the San Francisco stories and will focus on Micah and Dune. I’ll be doing some stuff to celebrate when it comes out, [...]

. . . is what I’ve been calling my plans for the year. The big list of next looks like this:
March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft.
April-May: the movie rough draft
June-July: Arcana rough and editing
August-Sept-October: Editing Cartography for Beginners
November: Nanowrimo (next SF ‘verse story)
December: REST!!! maybe write some fic.
Though I’m considering writing the Arcana in March [...]