Survey is now closed. This is going to sound pretty strange, but I have recently discovered that I have no clue what it is about my fiction that readers like… And I’m a lot less certain I understand what kind of fiction I write than I was up until yesterday. Here’s where I discovered how little I actually know about … Continue reading →
No big secret that I’m working hard on making my fiction a full-time paying gig again — my objective is to earn 50% of my income from fiction, with the other 50% coming from my writing classes. Fiction has been shoved over in a corner for years, because, well — writing good nonfiction is about a million times easier than … Continue reading →
So… I got this email, which wrapped up with this question: I’ve been in contact with Christian faith publishing the past year but haven’t submitted my manuscript because I recently finished writing, reading and editing it, & wanted to know more info before doing so. They have finally informed me of production costs if my manuscript were chosen for publishing. It’s a little … Continue reading →
Just sayin’… People disbelieve me when I say I deal with a lot of email. Glancing over at my email box, the number on Mail was just too funny to resist. … Continue reading →
Problem: Not Enough Noro means I have to use a fill-in yarn SOLVED: On November 3rd, I finished my Stained Glass Sweater, a project I’d been working on in small pieces since August 18th. Problem: About two weeks ago (late in the actual season), I discovered that the Diablo 3 season had something I wanted. A Disembodied Hand pet. SOLVED: Sunday night,I got my Disembodied … Continue reading →
I loved Apple computers for a long time. Frankly, I still love the two I have: A late 2013 iMac, and an even older MacBook Pro. But Apple has definitely been embracing the Dark Side since Steve Jobs died, and its walled garden, along with its pressure to push users into the Apple store and to make getting software from … Continue reading →
In May, my daughter Becky bought me Noro yarn for Mother’s Day. Gorgeous stuff, pure wool, the kind of yarn where you open the bag, shove your face against the yarn, inhale, and sigh with happiness. But it had to sit there for a while, because… Well, LIFE first, and then with yarn, you have to get to know it … Continue reading →
Just a couple of pictures of me, one taken in June of 2007, when I was 46, and one taken of me today, at 57. I’m in about the same pose, and wearing the same sweater, which I knitted back in 2007. The sweater is in the picture because this is the ONLY picture I have of me back then, … Continue reading →
This was the month in which I broke through my 3-days fasting block. Went four days easily and comfortably on just water, coffee, and a daily multivitamin, and I think I could have done five, but we had a roast that needed to be cooked and eaten before it went bad. I fasted yesterday just because I felt like it, … Continue reading →
In spite of everything (and there’s a lot of “everything” going on right now), I took the entire day off yesterday to play a video game. Not just any video game, though. The one for which I went out and bought a Playstation several years ago, and the one for which I dug out my X-Box and bought a NEW … Continue reading →
