[Published story, and NaNo]

NaNoWriMo has only been going on for little more than a week, and I'm already rummaging through the refrigerator late at night, staring through milk cartons and bundles of kale, wondering how the heck I'm going to feed this novel.

I'm not panicking. I just hold myself to a very high standard when it comes to fiction writing, and so far, the overall quality of my nano writing is a 5... 6... at best. I spent the past two days writing a chapter that I know will see the chopping block when November's over and it's time to re-write this silly thing. But, such is writing. It's a lot like necromancy: You find a corpse. Spruce it up a bit. Stick a corsage on its collar. Chop off some limbs. Sew on a new nose. Spruce it up some more. Maybe give it a stylish hat with a jaunty angle. And then when it's passable as a living thing, you give it a nice coat of polish and send it off into the world.

Okay, bad analogy. But writing is both a constructive and destructive craft. You build ideas, you tear them down. All in the name of story. Truth be told, I love it, and I'm having a blast writing Foxglove for NaNo.

In non nano news, one of my stories ("We Were Born With Blue Eyes") has been published in Fusion Fragment. I want to thank the super cool Cavan Terrill, the editor of Fusion Fragment, for thinking my story is neat and giving it a home.

Also, I have a couple more stories that have found homes. They'll be popping up as 2009 comes to a close, and in early 2010. Super-exciting, but more on that later!