caught with a paintbrush in my hand
Sunday 13 September 2009 at 10:41 am
I've been trying to finish my rewrite on the story formerly known as "Sybilla" for a few days now, and I keep running into the same problem I had when I first wrote the story: according to the rules I've laid out, the protagonist dooms herself with a well-meaning but ultimately foolish decision in the middle of the story. I have myself painted into a corner, and I was really fighting, trying to find a way out. If I change the rules or the decision, I'm writing a fundamentally different story, which is not a story I want to write.
The thing I realized last night is that the story is about the corner. It's an interesting corner. It's a Greek tragedy, which after all is what I originally set out to write. The thing about tragedy is that the progagonists generally don't manage to escape with their lives. The best you can hope for is a noble death.
I should be able to mostly finish the story today, with this in mind. Yay!
Outer Alliance Day! (and a bonus scene!)
Tuesday 01 September 2009 at 1:21 pm
As is blazingly obvious to pretty much anyone who’s ever read anything about me, I am queer and polyamarous. One of the things I like best about the SF/F community is its inclusiveness; I have met so many people who are like me in so many ways within it.
As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work.
Today is Outer Alliance Pride Day! So to celebrate, I thought I would post a scene from short story that is going to be turned into a novel at some point. I wrote it during my first week of Clarion West. All you need to know is that Tithelle is the Saint of the Splendid Bullfrog, and she has been charged by her brother, the Saint of the Counterbalance, to go forth and confront the god who is in the process of hatching out of the Counterbalance that keeps the city of Between balanced on top of a spire above the clouds.
Read more over here!
