Today I got good news.
Nothing writing-related, mind you. Life-related. The sort of news that’s supposed to make you kick off your shoes, dance a jig and then scream at the world, “Take that! I’m still here, bitches!”
But it wasn’t. At least not for me. Relief, mostly, but soured with a [...]
Archive for July, 2009
31 Jul
Not Now, Not Yet, Soon
29 Jul
Yesterday = Win! Today = Lose.
After worrying about where to set the next scene, I fiddled and fretted and didn’t get down to it until somewhere around lunch time. The goal, I said to myself, was 1,000 words, and once I reached that I was allowed to have some terrible junk food and play video games.
And in a [...]
28 Jul
Other Peoples Stories
Just finished getting my mind blown away by Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age. When I read Snow Crash, it was a revelation, yet The Diamond Age handedly surpassed my already high expectations. There is so much happening, so many good and interesting and deep extrapolations, not just with technology, but with culture, too. [...]
23 Jul
Is that a Migraine Coming On?
I didn’t realize I was as out of sorts as I was until Todd said something today when we were out.
(What were we doing? Why, adding another couple of books to my reference shelf, specifically The Science Book and A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words with my shiny little Chapters gift [...]
22 Jul
I Can’t Stress Enough
Promises to be an interesting couple of weeks ahead: what will either be a productive or highly entertaining Hypergraphics meeting, the results of all those damn post-cancer tests taking in the first half the year, a dentist appointment, a vet appointment that I still need to make, and then, at long last, World Con. [...]
19 Jul
New Blogging Venture
Spent the evening after dinner going through my collection of saved RSS feed articles of interest. I’m supposed to be keeping up on these so that they don’t build up into hour-long chores but I’m having the same amount of success with that venture as I am with the other self-appointed tasks that I try [...]
13 Jul
That One Thing
Finally! After working on the manuscript build, typing in all those notes and starting to plan out the new, unwritten sections, I found something I’ve misplaced for months now. And I can’t even describe it. Sitting here, trying to think of the right metaphor and finding everything that my mind offers up [...]
7 Jul
Ahead Of My Game
Hot damn, finally finished summarizing all the scenes written to date in the format for the manuscript build. It’s taken way long that it should be that can be blamed not just on my own skittishness but because to make these notes I have to refer to the draft written so far. I [...]
2 Jul
Water Fowl Ready!
It’s done. Not only has the room at the hotel been booked (and a month ago at that) but I have finally purchased my tickets and bought the membership for Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention!
The ducks are all in their row, neat and squeaky and ready to fly! Er, bus, anyway. [...]
