This year's writers workshop went very well (the workshop can be kind of hit-or-miss). I signed up not sure if it would do much for me, but because it was a thing that I wanted to continue. I ended up feeling like I got my money's worth in spades (and hearts, clubs, and diamonds). I should mention that the sandwiches provided were also fantastic (2 ( Read more... )

And--oh, yes--I did get a nose piercing awhile ago:


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You know, a long rambling post where I write about where I'm at and what I'm doing and all the other things I think friends should know about each other but all too often don't these days. I encourage you to do one of these posts, too! I miss knowing these things about my friends (Twitter and Facebook have added a lot of little detailed ( Read more... )

In my dreams, half the time I'm male, and half the time I'm female. One-quarter of the time, I'm much older than my real age, and half the time I'm younger. I find this interesting. Last night, I was an older man, kind of a retired-badass sort of character. Also, there was river surfing on 2x4s, which totally wouldn't work in the real world ( Read more... )

I am not sure what it says about me that I
1. took photographs of my gross, bloody biking injuries, but
2. deleted them because I thought they didn't have a high enough artistic value.

• 10:20 Horrifying realization: I'm getting to the point where I can predict WPM by the sound of the person typing.
• 08:33 My new MN ID has a "special retroflective virtual image of a loon that appears to float above the surface of the card." It's hypnotic.
• 13:58 My Gmail chat status keeps resetting to, "in NgithOwl's googly clutches." I find this ( Read more... )

• 06:35 For those with bug bites, "After Bite: The Itch Eraser" is wonderful stuff.
• 16:37 I laid down on the kitchen floor for just a few moments and slept for three hours. Asleep, I thought dreaming of writing counted. Awake, no.
• 16:39 Arranged 3 interviews today. 1 person didn't show, but gave 1 hr. advance warning. 1 person just didn't show. 1 ( Read more... )

Downtime at work lets me write long, rambling posts about the imbalanced balancing act that is my life.

( Hashing over scheduling and writing and photography oh my )

This started out as a reply to a comment, but now it is clearly post-sized.

I post a lot about my works-in-progress, mostly writing-related ones. There are a few reasons that I do this ( Read more... )

From that What you don't post about and should meme. See, I get around to it when I have time! Also still accepting challenges if anybody else has any.

WHY you write.I started writing because I was frustrated by an inadequate supply of the sorts of stories I wanted to read, and I didn't like the endings of some of the stories I had. So I rewrote ( Read more... )