The Plot Bunny Farm

A Room of Her Own Foundation has the application up for the next Gift of Freedom Award. Deadline is October 2008, decision to be made spring of 2009--lots of time to work on your application essays! The award is for $50,000 over a two-year span, and it can be for poetry, playwriting, creative nonfiction, or fiction. For the 2007 award, the foundation received 1,819 applications.

I will be applying again, although I was not a finalist this time around. Money to support my writing--what's not to like? And the process of writing the essays, thinking about what my writing means to me, was very helpful in showing me my priorities. I won't be proposing the same project; I hope to have a first draft of that before the decision is made. I don't know yet what project I will propose, but I have time to think about it.

What are you waiting for? Go, get started!

slobbit asked me what I'm working on these days. I told her, but figured I'd post here, too, for anyone else who's curious.

I'm trying to get my NaNo novel completed by the end of the month. I'm preparing a grant application for A Room of Her Own Foundation's Gift of Freedom award ($50,000 over 2 years). I'm writing a steampunk short story to submit to Pitch-Black's Magic & Mechanica anthology. I'm editing a pirate story to submit to the VanderMeers for the Fast Ships, Black Sails anthology--and figuring out what's wrong with this has finally helped me to see how to rewrite my Spiders short, so I'll be picking that back up in a couple of weeks. This next week, I'll probably be taking another crack at Blood Brother, including tackling the new beginning--the grant application requires a 10-page fiction sample, and I think that's my strongest, deepest work to date. I also have a few shorts out for crit that I'll be revising as I get comments back. Oh, and I have some poems I should see about editing, too.

Have some paying work going on, too--proofreading a book on Austria right now, then one on Scotland, then back to Austria for Vienna & the Danube Valley.