They’re Just Words

When a person calls themselves a ‘writer’ that really opens the door to a wide variety of ‘writing’. There is fiction and nonfiction, of course, but what I mean is ‘genre‘. For example, there is science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, mainstream, etc etc. THEN within each of the genres are other segments. For example, there is ‘hard’ science fiction vs ’soft’ science fiction. Hard SF means that what happens in the book could possibly actually happen. Soft SF means that the current information available could not produce such events.

So what genre do I fall into?

Good question!

Of the projects I have going right now, I have a science fiction, a fantasy, and several romances. Ugh, romance? Yes, romance. But not just the usual ‘throbbing member’ type. I got womyn doin’ womyn in mine. In regular terms, that means I am writing gay/lesbian fantasy romance. Now, feel better just knowing, don’t you?

My debut novel, Butch Girls Can Fix Anything, was released by Regal Crest Enterprises in January ‘07.

My current WIPs (works in progress) and their status:

• Simple Sarah and Long Lea
• The Guide
• Airport
• Truck Stop
• Butch Girls 2
• Butch Girls 3
• Scholarly Ways/Centric
• Look Left before Crossing the Chute for my nephew
• Predictable World on hold
• Wayback and Pedigree on hold
• Maps of Various WIPs
• Screenshots of various stuff, including parts from the Inspiration software.

You can keep track of some of these by going to the Progress Report. I have each of the most active projects listed and their current wordcount.

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I find myself leaning somewhat toward the erotica side at times. I think its because I am not being graphic in my WIPs and I feel the need to NOT fade to black. So I write what happens between the sheets, I mean chapters. The Guide is my way of letting all that out. There are no fade-to-black sex scenes!

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On-line Reading:

“Arrivals and Departures” - a short story published online by Muscadine Lines, A Southern Journal.

Writer Meets Writer - this one is old old old. I suppose about ten years or so.

2004 May Challenge - Story-A-Day - In May, Forward Motion had a challenge that I tried to do. I only got 5 (May was a bad month, June was even worse!). All five of the stories are there:

• The Interview
• The Buzzard Dance
• What We Leave Behind
• Hands
• The Actress
• The Desk

I have also added some of my older poems (as in about 18-20 years ago). They are awful and I know it but frankly, I don’t care. Read them if you feel brave enough.

In the same section as the poetry, I have put the freewriting stuff.