Most of yesterday was spent attempting to hunt down my primary Breath of Stone file. According to my computer, no copy of the file exists post-October 30, which is... quite incorrect. It isn't the only file missing. Yes, I've done searches. Yes, I've looked here, thither, and yon. I think there's a copy on my most recent Carbonite backup (yesterday ( Read more... )

I have been blocked by someone on Twitter. Huh! Don't know how long it's been that way. I only saw it today because someone else referenced a great conversation happening on that person's stream. Since it was someone I thought I'd followed, I checked it out and... blocked. Heck, I know I can be ornery sometimes, but I didn't think I was that ( Read more... )

Tuesday night, my dojo secretary called to say she'd be in late because police had blocked off her street, big-city media was clogging everyone's driveway, and a helicopter was circling overhead while a forensics team and cadaver-sniffing dogs stood by waiting to excavate a neighbor's yard in an effort to find the body of a woman who'd disappeared ( Read more... )

Other than Dev's so-minor car accident, things have gone well.  Not flash-bang-gee-whiz awesome, but well enough I'm ending the week with a feeling of contentment and relief rather than the usual exhaustion and guilt ( Read more... )

On this snowy day, I'm taking a break from Sand of Bone revisions.  My darlings, I know the revision process has gone on far too long--so long that it feels quite irresponsible to take a break of any sort.  But, well... Here we are.
I've been reading and muchly enjoying Kate Elliott's Spiritwalker trilogy.  I could go on and on about how much I ( Read more... )

I seem to be in one of my "Woe, I feel disconnected from everything!" moods, which I seem determined to lengthen by remaining disconnected--able to read, but poorly able to respond in any meaningful way to those who most deserve it. So I'm trying to push myself ( Read more... )

First: I am in love with this article by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown. As I mentioned in comments at sartorias's LJ, a female character cannot be confident, competent, and likeable without being deemed a Mary Sue. (That doesn't even touch upon appearance, which is a whole 'nother target of spite and vitriol.) I remember a beta reader once telling ( Read more... )

Just a general round-up ( Read more... )

That Man knows me well.  He found this for me for Valentine's Day. I'm loving it, yes I am, and muchly looking forward to our get-togther in Asheville next weekend ( Read more... )

I've been feeling just a tad overwhelmed lately with the bits and pieces of all the projects before me.  Teaching for hours at the dojo? No problem.  Remembering to email three different people about six different things?  Gah.  Why is it I can recall all my clients' names and conditions and such, but only remember to fax a document when I'm ( Read more... )