categorizing:
- Book Reviews
- Building Character
- Consuite
- Feeding The Beast
- Field Notes
- Friday Fictionettes
- From the Notebook
- Idol Worship
- Joint Ventures
- Mapping Territories
- Market Alert
- Mirabile Dictu
- Musespotting
- NaNo Oh-No
- Nostalgia
- Philosophy
- Pirates What Puzzle
- Plotting And Scheming
- Political Maunderings
- Profitable Hackery
- Rejectomancy
- Routines
- Scales And Arpeggios
- Selling My Soul
- Spinning A Yarn
- Spit and Polish
- Status Report
- Support Structures
- Surfacing
- Technicalities
- Technopeasantry
- The Beast That Rolls
- Thing-a-day
- Vacuuming the Cat
- Whining
- Yahoo! Yeehah! Woopie!
works progressing:
- The Drowning Boy
- Becoming Sara Peltier
- The Golden Bridle
- Faith-Based Charity, Pagan Style
- The Seeds of Our Future
- Heroes To Believe In
- Kit's First Spell
- The Bookwyrm's Hoard
- The Kissing Room
- Getting Out
- Untying The Knot
- Of Clay Fashioned
- Right Off The Page
- Elegy For Trilobite Blue
- The Upbringing Of A Geek: An Appreciation
- Turbulence
- The Great Selkie
- Cut & Paste
- The Impact of Snowflakes
- The Stormsinger's Daughter
- Right Door, Wrong Time
- Knowing the Territory
- Narcissus Pastorale
- The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out
- A Wish For Captain Hook
- The Witness
- Little Beanie in R'lyeh
- A Handshake Deal
- Code Name Maui: The Top Half
- The Day the Sidewalks Melted
- Stormsinger's Birth
- Stormsinger's Quest
- Current Work-For-Hire Assignment
- Thinking of Home
- A Surfeit Of Turnips
- Lambing Season
- The Timing of Trains
- Like A Bad Penny
- Your Disembodied Friends Would Like To Remind You
- Janet's Fibercrafts and Miscellaneous Services
- Melissa's Ghost
- First Breath
- Ants Go Marching Latte-ward, Hurrah
- Unfinished Letter Found in an Abandoned Farmhouse
- Present Perfect
- Deaths in a Dream
- The Blackbird Is Involved in What I Know
- The Interfaith Intercessional Fellowship Meets Saturdays at Seven
- Caroline's Wake
- Caveat Emptor
- Last Week's Rhododendron
- Passengers
- Mephisto's Toaster and Other Stories
- A is for A is for...
- Dear You:
- It's For You
- ...Not With a Bang, But a Snicker
- The one about the goblin market in Omaha
- Iron Wheels
- Comin' For to Carry Me Home
- When the Bottom Dropped Out of the Soul Market
- Other Theories of Relativity
- Priesthood Has Its Privileges
- Breaking and Entering
- Those Who Would Dance for the Gods
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Fruit of the Tree Is a Story that None Must Tell
- Down Wind
- The Blacksmith Goes to the Ball
- East of Omaha, West of San Francisco
- While the Sun Still Shines
- What Dreams May Hatch
- The Hound at the Heart of the Maze
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- It's Not Weird If It Works
- The Revolution Will Not Be Processed
- Wrong Thoughts in the Age of Miracles
- Your Neighbor's Keeper
- The Importance of Faerie Godmothers
- Keeping Time
- Escape from Monday's Diner
- Stealing the Crown Jewels
- What Is Sacrificed on Your Altar
- Moon Island: A Traveler's Guide
- Three Reasons to Be Afraid of the Dark
- Picking Up the Pieces
- The Metamorphosis of Anita Chaplain
- If on a Winter's Night Two Travellers...
- Ink That Casts a Shadow
- A Bridge Just Far Enough
- Please To Confirm Your Appointment With BRIGHT SMILES!
- No One's Home
- The Divorce Arch
- Not Fade Away
- Out of Order
- The Moon and the Mage's Gloves
- The Fourth Miracle of Emmaline Gray
- The Hole in the Middle of the Block
- An Office in Transition
- To Come Before the Queen
- Because You Weren't There
- A New Doll for Polly
- Shipwreck in Progress
- You Could Go a Long Way in Shoes Like Those
- Adventures in Posthumous Journalism
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Each Note Passes Away Forever
- All the Flowers of the Field
- Ill Met by Moonlight
- Stand By for Your Assignment (full-length)
- Protective Coloration
- And Did You Bring Enough for Everyone?
- Mucking Out the Kelpie
- The Once and Future Hot Potato
- A Fine Day for a Picnic
- How Featherkind Got Its Song
- Still Life with Coyote
- The Spy Who Croaked
- The Celebrated Frog Forger of Clackamas County
- The New Criminal Element
- How the Lassie Didn't Go East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- A Familiar Situation
- A Word in Your Ear
- I Didn't Ask for Champagne
- In the Shadow of Next Tuesday
- Ephemeral States
- Future's So Bright
- The Oracle Takes You Back
- The Thing with Feathers
- Mala's Desert Muse
- What Your Name is Worth
- Premature Labor
- The Wine Cellar That Wished
- The Magpie's Big Heist
- The Artist's Apprentice
- Doors Do Swing Both Ways
- Day-to-Day Invasions
- (Ellen and the man who was a tree)
- The Touch of Iron
- Weird Quantum Science
- It's That Little Something Extra
- The Call Is Coming From Inside the Building
- How Fetches Become Real
- This Will Be My Origin Story
- In the Hall of the Gnome King
- Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night
- Reviving the Legends
- The Day the Storefront Let Jen Bledsoe In
- The Queen of Carnival
- The Spindle's Spell
- Sunlighting (after revising "A Week in the Life of a Simple Houseplant")
- Objectivity and the Art of the Documentary
- The Right Child
- Father Frank's Peaceable Kingdom
- Maggie, Queen of Darkness
- Happy Birthday, Dear Bob
- What They Found in the Attic
- Partners in Crime
- Singing in the Shower
- The Revolution of the Flies
- Survivor's Guilt
- Something Wicked
- Late Registration
- Dr. Green Ascends to the Nether World
- Making Friends (original Friday Fictionette)
- How the Drought Was Ended
- By Moonlight, a Dream of Vengeance
- All Dolled Up
- The Starring Role
- Living It Up
- DON'T WALK
- In the Infinite Shadows of Eden
- A Few Words Before We Begin
- Shoulda Been a Wizard
- Tit for Tat
- The Witch on the Corner
- Aya's Last Spell
- Five Good Reasons
- The Actress Who Went to Utter North, and What She Found There
- How the Elephant's Child Lost Her Voice
- The Miraculous Hide
- Kill or Cure
- The Land Exhales
- The Sandpit Oracle
- The Gold Drug
- Known Hazards of Employment in a Pawn Shop
- The Witch's Stories
- Containment Breach
- Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
- A Most Competitive Compensation Plan
- The Only Winning Move...
- In Your Lifetime
- The Ties that Bind
- Preventable Dudes
- The Parable of the Singer
- This Time We Play for All the Marbles
- CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP
- Strange Tidings
- Individual Results May Vary
- Falling Toward the Light
- A Bad Case of the Stubborns
- Diving For Fairy Stones
- How Grief Transforms You
- Tina, Destroyer of Worlds
- Love, Death, and Really Bad Movies
- Intervention
- Seven Chickadees
- White Noise
- Word Made Flesh
- In the Suburbs of Good and Evil
- Legacy
- The Manic Pixie Call Girl Experience
- The Rutabagas Remember
- Love of Country
- Chelsea's Second-Rate Muse
- Come Home to Roost
- The Youth Fairy
- The Croquet Lawn, and What They Found There
- The Rarest of Prey
- Extreme Measures at Fourteen
- Extreme Measures at Fourteen (full-length flash)
- The Ones Who Don't Walk Away Fast Enough
- There's an App for That
- The Education of Baby Rocket
- The Proof is in the Post
- Lights Out
- Electing a Chair
- Can We Have a Little Privacy Over Here
- When in Rome
- Taking Care of Bigfoot
- The Soup Witch's Funeral Dinner
- Tomorrow Belongs to the Dragons
- Party Time
- Survival, After
- Contract Negotiations
- My Best Friend's Girlfriend
- Cat Therapy (was: Adventures in Felinity)
- Payback
- Encore
- Ten Uses for a Dozen Red Roses
- Adolescence Is a Time of Changes
- Highlights for Creator Gods
- Mardel's Salamander
- We're All in This Together
- Protocol for Visiting Witches
- Change'll Do You Good
- The Poisoned Chalice
- Living Undercover
- The Chance of a Lifetime
- Your Turn
- What Dreams May Come
- Title TBD (horror story: nostalgia diner)
- Lord Alchemist's Harvest
- Your Robotic Confidante
- Call That Stewardship
- Apotheosis
- Love in the Time of Lizard People
- Thinking Outside the Dollhouse
- Right on Time
- A Practical Guide to Your Magical Hero Destiny
- The Indecisive Lifeguard
- At Night, the Dead
- How To Become Weightless
- The Best Revenge
- Eyes in the Rain
- Two Weeks By Daylight
- The Story Master
- Hold the Door
- One Story, Two People
- The Huntsman's Assignment
- Listening
- How the Royal Stablemaster Won the War
- Growing Up Is Optional
- On the Predilections of Drakes
- Triptych: Dryad Green
- What Queens Are For
- The Ascent of Inanna (poem)
- Human Capital
- Marla in Two Rooms
- Real Friends
- She Danced for the Queen
- The Mardi Gras Tree
- The Piano and Her Boy
- The Lab Rat
- The Innkeeper's Curse
- README.txt
- Lost: One Memory
- One Hell of a Guy
- Swallowed Up
- Your SmartFurnace Needs Love Too
- Cri de Coeur
- On Dirkmere
- The Memory of Flight
- The Traveler's House
- A Gryphon Walks Into a Bar
- Hardly St. Francis
- Inherit the Earth
- The Size of the World
- Reasonable Accommodations
- Culture Clash
- What the Desert Dreams
- What Is Not Prohibited
- My Sister Draws Things
- How It Begins
- Companion Dolls
- A Separate World
- Invasive Species
- Misery Loves Company
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Making Friends
- Bride of the River
- Leveling Up
- Where the Streetlights Never Come On
- Pilgrim's Voyage
- Who's Afraid of the Dark?
- When It Calls, You Have to Go
- The New Undertaker
- King of All He Surveyed
- Transplant
- One Oracle, Two Swords, and a Thief
- Revisions
- The Old Weaver Retires
- An Emerging Talent
- In Memoriam
- On Lightning Plain
- The Cursed Mascot
- Across Great Distances
- Burning Bright
- Incognito
- Symbiosis
- A Changed World
- Just Doing My Job
- One Last Spectacle
- The Book People of Bloomsbury Falls
- On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland
- Fiat Nox
- The Curious Incident of the Black Dog of the Night
Maybe It Wasn't Ready For Prime Time After All
Tue 2006-02-21 22:00:00 (in context)
- 57,284 words (if poetry, lines) long
- 112.00 hrs. revised
So I've finally cracked open The Drowning Boy, determined how many chapters fits in 10,000 words (four, if you want to know), and applied two hours of unflinching scrutiny to the prose therein.
I have come to this conclusion:
Sending the first three chapters as they stand now to Wizards of the Coast? What was I thinking?
[shakes head, facepalms, loads fountain pen with fresh ink]