Tonight Alex, Seth and I went to hear Neil Gaiman read from his latest book. The owner of Cody’s books introduced him and pretended that he’d been expecting to talk about Mother Courage, the current production at Berkeley Rep where Gaiman was speaking. He mispronounced “Gay-man” as “Guy-man” repeatedly, to howling laughter from the audience, and ( Read more... )

I just realized that I probably can't do the 3-day novel contest. It falls over the 1st of September which means that my new roommate will be moving in that weekend. I think it would be rude / impossible / difficult to say, "You have fun moving in alone. Try not to change anything until we talk about it. See you in three days. Oh and could you ( Read more... )

So, today while contemplating my life at The Firm over my first coffee of the day, I was thinking about things I'd rather be doing. Like writing a novel. I suddenly remembered something that Angie had once mentioned about a 3 day novel writing contest ( Read more... )