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My career, Harper's Index style
Meme from
matociquala.
Current Status as of this morning:
Cormorant Child: stuck for lack of a sfnal macguffin to discover in Chapter 2
Dark Sister: ideas breeding like bunnies, but no effing PLOT
The Emperor of the Elflands: waiting to hear whether my editor is interested
The Marriage of True Minds: stuck
The Second Son: stuck in the Slough of Despond
"After the Dragon": stuck
"Blue Lace Agate": in chrysalis, metamorphosing (I hope) from short story to novel(la)
"Brides of Nyarlathotep": stuck
"Hollywood After Dark: A Still Life With Wolves": stuck stuck stuck
"The Queen in Winter": stuck
"The Queen of Liverpool": broken
"Thirdhop Scarp": can't decide which story it wants to be
"Under Babylon": stuck
"White Charles": avoiding
untitled electric chair story: composting
Age when I decided I wanted to be a writer: 11
Age when I wrote my first story: 11
Age when I first submitted a short story to a magazine: 15
Age when I sold my first short story: 27
Number of years in-between in which I made no submissions: 9
Thickness of file of rejection slips prior to first story sale: 50, maybe?
Approximate number of short stories/novelettes/novellas sold for cash money: 31
Age when I first sold a poem: 30
Poems sold: 1
Age when I wrote my first novel, counting by what I, at the time, defined as a "novel": 12
Age when I sold a first novel: 28
Novels written between age 12 and age 28: 7
Age when I wrote the first novel I sold: 27 (but I started it when I was 19)
Age when that novel was published: 30
Total number of novels written (discounting juvenilia, counting collaborations): 5
Books sold: 6 (5 novels, 1 collection)
Books published or delivered and in the pipeline: 6
Number of titles in print: 5
Number of titles fallen out of print: 0
Age when first nominated for an award: 28
Age when first won an award: 28
Nominations: 5
Awards won: 1
Age when I became a full-time novelist: 29
Age when I returned to the day-job because of economic implosion: n/a, although I have taught two semesters of college literature between then and now
Age now: 34
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Current Status as of this morning:
Cormorant Child: stuck for lack of a sfnal macguffin to discover in Chapter 2
Dark Sister: ideas breeding like bunnies, but no effing PLOT
The Emperor of the Elflands: waiting to hear whether my editor is interested
The Marriage of True Minds: stuck
The Second Son: stuck in the Slough of Despond
"After the Dragon": stuck
"Blue Lace Agate": in chrysalis, metamorphosing (I hope) from short story to novel(la)
"Brides of Nyarlathotep": stuck
"Hollywood After Dark: A Still Life With Wolves": stuck stuck stuck
"The Queen in Winter": stuck
"The Queen of Liverpool": broken
"Thirdhop Scarp": can't decide which story it wants to be
"Under Babylon": stuck
"White Charles": avoiding
untitled electric chair story: composting
Age when I decided I wanted to be a writer: 11
Age when I wrote my first story: 11
Age when I first submitted a short story to a magazine: 15
Age when I sold my first short story: 27
Number of years in-between in which I made no submissions: 9
Thickness of file of rejection slips prior to first story sale: 50, maybe?
Approximate number of short stories/novelettes/novellas sold for cash money: 31
Age when I first sold a poem: 30
Poems sold: 1
Age when I wrote my first novel, counting by what I, at the time, defined as a "novel": 12
Age when I sold a first novel: 28
Novels written between age 12 and age 28: 7
Age when I wrote the first novel I sold: 27 (but I started it when I was 19)
Age when that novel was published: 30
Total number of novels written (discounting juvenilia, counting collaborations): 5
Books sold: 6 (5 novels, 1 collection)
Books published or delivered and in the pipeline: 6
Number of titles in print: 5
Number of titles fallen out of print: 0
Age when first nominated for an award: 28
Age when first won an award: 28
Nominations: 5
Awards won: 1
Age when I became a full-time novelist: 29
Age when I returned to the day-job because of economic implosion: n/a, although I have taught two semesters of college literature between then and now
Age now: 34
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*dies* I accidentally read that as "counting abominations" ... which describes some of my own unpublished novels rather well! But, er, not yours.
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I am relearning something I already knew, which is that I'm fantastic at starting things and very very very bad at finishing them. For a while there, I seem to have had the problem licked, but it's come creeping insidiously back.
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Writing is hard, yo. And yet so good. Like cashew brittle.
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