Many Updates, One Blog

As usual, my blog has languished in the face of other writing. I send so many daily updates through Twitter and Facebook that I forget to post news here!

I do have several things I wanted to share, however.

First of all, the 2011 Clarion West writers workshop is now underway. It’s quite an anniversary for me, being a grad of last year’s class. I can’t believe how quickly the year has gone by, and how much has happened with my writing career since then.

Congratulations to this year’s class, I wish you all the best of luck. But to further support their endeavors, and those of future classes, I’m participating in this year’s Clarion West Write-a-thon. This 6-week fundraiser runs simultaneously with the workshop and is vital to keeping the workshop going. Head on over to the sponsor page and if you don’t want to sponsor me, there are over 140 writers signed up this year!

As a little incentive, I’m offering prizes to anyone who signs up to sponsor me. I thank you for the support, and I know Clarion West does, too.

Speaking of those incentives, the noveling is chugging along, though admittedly though not at “full steam ahead” like I’d hoped. I’m about 7,000 words in at this point, and I’ve been doing some major rethinking on character and plot already. That may sound bad, but quite frankly, it’s necessary and I can only imagine the book will be better for it in the long run. At some point, I’ll post about the experience so far. Stay tuned.

I’ve been doing a bit of nonfiction writing lately, too. My profile of Kung Fu Panda 2 director Jennifer Yuh Nelson is live at Fantasy Magazine. There’s also a great deal of good fiction over there this month, so you owe it to yourself to check it out.

In other writing news, I’m just about done with revisions on a couple of shorts that I hope to send out to market soon. Of course, I’ve had my share of rejections this month, but as they say, “a writer’s life for me.” Can’t get me down.