The rain came again. It avoided the office this time, though, to drip happily into Bly’s bedroom (down the wall and onto her alarm clock) and mine (pouring onto the floor and dripping on my new comforter!) I never finished the last six pages of One-Pass Revision. I was pondering adding some five pages to […]
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I hate the way when I have a time limit–we’re going grocery shopping in an hour, or I’m going back to work in a week–I just can’t seem to do anything. Deadlines are fine.ย I can work to a deadline.ย A very good thing, since I want a writing career.ย But limits?ย Limits get me.
I don’t like hype. I have a natural aversion to all things hyped. Therefore, the bigger Harry Potter got, the more I didn’t want to be involved. Not that I don’t love Harry–I do. So I knew all along I’d have to read. I would have preferred, though, to wait. To savor it, to read
What do you mean? Of course that’s a word. Meh. I’m giddy with exhaustion, yet over-caffeinated. All I did today was start to get the Flame-edit changes into the document, because I certainly don’t have brain enough to edit the last six pages. Why am I so tired? Because I was up till 0338 dealing
Guess it’s time for a progress report, eh? Well, I’m editing page 86 of 111 of the Flame manuscript. When I’m not depressed about the end of my vacation or the fact that I haven’t heard from Tor yet (yes, it’s been just over a month and the response time is four to six months.
Oops. In Braintree, firefighters cut holes in wrong house Training property was 2 blocks away RAINTREE — Town firefighters learned a different kind of lesson when they punched holes in a house as part of a training exercise: Make sure you have the right address. Yep. They’re human too. Poor guys. They won’t be living
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Sometimes you just have to let the muses play. Like when you’ve been trying for two days to get through one lousy scene, and they just keep hauling you off to look up sailing terms or search for The Bourne Ultimatum trailers. (here are two) At such times, letting go can really help. So I