I’d like to take a moment to pitch a small fit. I am not WE. My opinions are my own, my affiliations are non-existent, and I do not fit — nor choose to fit — into any corporate marketer’s fucking target demographic. The demographic that has me most deeply pissed off at the moment is the Mac Community, as created, … Continue reading →
I received a letter from a young writer with whom I’ve been corresponding for a while now. In it she asked me a question that I thought worth passing on, since it is a question EVERY writer will face sooner or later. Her question: As for my first novel it should be well and truly finished by now but it … Continue reading →
Starting into the NEW new schedule today, realized that at some point I’m going to have to get my income tax stuff done to send to the accountant, have the usual housework piling up. Narrow, twisty mountain road. Downhill on a bicycle with no breaks. Can’t get off, can’t fall off, must reach the bottom safely and on-time, while still … Continue reading →
I’ve discovered this morning that I have a thing in my writing for the miracle of indoor plumbing. I am terribly fond of figuring out ways to include flush toilets, hot showers, and taps that turn water on and off. I am grateful for hot running water and civilized sewage handling. It comes from my childhood, where on and off, … Continue reading →
Claire liked "C". Robin e-mailed me yesterday, and mentioned that she wanted to know about a couple of changes to the basic premise, though. Throughout the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve made plenty of changes in previous premises, rewritten whole vast chunks of books, never quibbled because in every instance I could see how the changes would make the … Continue reading →
Reading this entry from Sheila’s blog, I confess to a moment of jaw-dropping, mind-blowing disbelief. No. Not at Sheila’s continued, mysterious fascination with George Clooney. My tastes run much more to Vin Diesel and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. (I do not attempt to explain my tastes. I simply report them.) But no. That one or more of her readers would ask … Continue reading →
Finished the office makeover — and in the spirit of Christopher Lowell, did “before, during, and after” pictures. It’s astonishing what a difference four shelves will make. … Continue reading →
The most beautiful autumn rain is coming down outside my open window right now, and three cats are jammed nose-to-butt in the windowsill watching it. The rain smells amazing, and it sounds so pretty I turned off the writing music for a while just to enjoy it. I can write to a good, steady rain, too. Which reminds me. Time … Continue reading →
Cartania –This is an odd, lyrically beautiful, hard-to-pin-down site, and it’s in the writing sites section because sometimes writers can learn a lot from seeing something done spectacularly well. The writer who put it together has done something amazing here. You won’t find rules for writing on the site, or links to pages that will help you fix your grammar … Continue reading →
Finished with fifty-eight pages of revision done yesterday, which pretty much kicks ass. That included about three thousand new words added … and about the same number removed. Ended up with a net loss of three hundred words and change. But that’s okay. I have a few scenes that I’m going to have to add in — I’ll make up … Continue reading →
