Month: November 2003

  • Do You Believe In Signs?

    I do. Always have. And, still pondering the full meaning of the Jennifer Crusie article I referenced here last week (The Weasel Has Landed), I wandered over to Sheila’s Starlines, and discovered that she has done what I’ve been considering. Protect the work. One person I trust implicitly has been telling me for the last…

  • Lemons Into Lemonade

    Talk about taking awful news and turning it into something good. RuthAnne is an FMer who discovered writing was hurting her health, and who found a way to turn it around and make it something that would actually bring her back to health, and give her a potentially saleable book at the end of her…

  • The Weasel Has Landed

    Good God. I found the weasel. And a fireplace poker to hit him with. You know, from Weasel Of My Dreams. Thank you, all of you who offered dream interpretations on that one. They were tremendously helpful. And thanks to Sara Donati, from whose weblog I found Jennifer Crusie’s website. Where I found both the…

  • Jennifer Cruisie Has a Website!

    I am a huge, pitifully-gushing, pathetically sychophantic Jennifer Cruisie fan. I haunt bookstores for her stuff, I have been known to elbow Very Mean Women out of the way to snag a last copy on a first day, and thank to links on Sara Donati’s weblog, I just found out that Jennifer Cruisie has a…

  • Weasel of My Dreams

    I was walking through a spacious, beautiful house last night in my dream, admiring the play of light through the windows and following some sweet music that I could not quite catch. My family was around, but not with me, and the whole mood of the place was bright and happy. I passed a couch.…

  • “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You”

    Writing a novel is an exercise in faith — faith in self, faith in story, faith in the process of writing. Self is the rock-bottom core faith that you dare not lose; you must believe that you can finish the thing in order to finish it. Writing a story is a tightrope walk, and whether…

  • Catholic School Girls 1: Flasher 0

    Yeah, I think this works. Cheers for the girls, cheers for the neighbors. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Cloned Food Okay … Except ….

    You know those drug ads where you get the great news about all the good things the newest wonder-drug is going to do for you, accompanied by foggy, dreamy Vaseline-cam pictures of beautiful people running through fields of clover and daisies, followed by a monotoned weasel reading the product warnings at Guinness-World Record Speed: “May…

  • You’re Joking, Right?

    More from the mailbag, this one in the category of “Excuse me, but which of these questions have I not already answered on this very site, AT LENGTH?” “Hello, my name is [withheld]. I’m doing a project that requires me to interview a person of my topic. I hope you get this and e-mail me…