About Me
Hello, my name is Steph. I’ve been writing and publishing since 1988 and I’ve been in the games industry since 1996. I wrote a little bit more on the About Me page. This is my sometimes-updated website. Enjoy.
January 2006
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edited up to sixteen
She woke up, made breakfast, sat down, edited two hard chapters. She got up, came downstairs, wrote a post, and decided to go swimming at her gym. Plans today will probably include editing two more chapters, then adding them all in, then editing two more, then going to bed, then talking about myself in the… Continue reading
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through fourteen
That’s the sound of a halfway point being reached! A cool twist on an earlier concept came to me. Easy to do. Will be done. My list of changewords is growing to epic proportions. Stupid proper nouns. Continue reading
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entered through 12
11 and 12 were tricky. 13-17 should be less so. All in good fun. But that bed is calling. And so…. Continue reading
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entered edits through 10
Ha! Take that, chapter ten! I have removed your superfluos dream-vision-thing and axed 500 words from you! What do you have to say for yourself? WHAT DO YOU — oh. Right. Inanimate object. Nevermind. Bed! we took off and rose and we rose and we rose until i could see what we all stood to… Continue reading
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through twelve
Thirty-five pages of edits to add tonight. The best of the pages is below: Of special interest is the one-word angry note at the bottom, a love-missive from my inner editor: The cigar-chomping inner writer is glowering. “You see what I have to work with?” she exclaims, hunching her shoulders. There were two cats on… Continue reading
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through 11
Line edits through 11. And the reiterating voice of self-doubt has started up. Yipee. Continue reading
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a delicate balance
I hate obviousness. But I hate obliqueness to the point that you need Sherlock Holmes to expound for pages to his patsy before you’ll understand what the heck’s going on. So I’m doing a bit of concealment and a bit of revealment, and hoping I’ve got the mix right. I suppose the obliqueness is only… Continue reading
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workspaces
TFW is in hardcopy revisions at the moment, so my workspace is not in my usual location (the office downstairs). I do all line-edits at a table in my kitchen. On my right is a printed copy of the book. On my left a notebook for note-taking and middle-of-the-night “AH HA!”s. Not pictured: the stereo,… Continue reading
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chapters 7 – 9
Entered changes from 7 to 9, and some twists on a thread that has been giving me heartburn because I’m not sure I can pull it off without sounding contrived. I swear there’s a logical explanation for it, but first readers will tell if it’s good enough. I listened to the same song over and… Continue reading
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no good
Derailed by death. Spent most of today thinking about all the things she’d done for me, and wondering if she knew. Probably not. Ain’t it always the case. I’ll be back tomorrow. Continue reading