Month: September 2010

  • Kicked Back to Square One

    I have never been graceful. Fast, yes. I’m a good runner, a quick walker, I like to get places in a hurry. But graceful? No. In years of nursing, I carried home some hellacious bruises because on my way to codes I would bounce myself off all manner of pointy objects, and not slow down…

  • The novel is back on track

    I’m in my second week of getting words on TalysMana every night. I’ve been tentative about saying anything here: the whole fiction-writing process felt so fragile after the unplanned five-month hiatus—family emergency, moving, family emergency, vertigo-and-migraines. I’m just starting to feel mostly normal most of the time, and though I’ve been able to pick up…