I woke at 5:30 a.m. to a terrific thunderstorm and lay awake listening, listening, listening to the thunder, watching the lightning at the windows, not getting back to sleep. I gave up and got out of bed at six. There was torrential rain. And now there is sun. And I did not sleep enough. Our high was 71˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny again today. A little chilly again today. Our high was 64˚F. It's currently 62˚F.

I managed to get up the nerve to read the first to read the opening of Chapter 1 of The Night Watchers and was relieved to see that it's actually pretty good.

I watched a documentary on the sinking of Titanic and another of the rescue of that Thai soccer team ( Read more... )

Mostly rainy today, following from last night's storm. Well, not so much rainy. Just cloudy...and as I typed that, the sun came out. Huzzah. Currently, it's 82˚F, with the heat index at 87˚F. Our high was 82˚F ( Read more... )

My responsibility as an author, the responsibility that I have chosen, is to make readers ask themselves, "What the fuck was that?" I just tweeted this, and I posted it on Facebook. And then, to Spooky, I elaborated on it at some length. And I said, "I need to write all this down before I forget what I said," but I fear I already have. Why my ( Read more... )

The way I feel this afternoon, I should not even attempt a journal entry. Yet, here I am, attempting it.

Another trip to Saunderstown yesterday. I had to read through all of Chapter Three of The Red Tree, and it was more pleasant doing it there than here.

I did manage to finish Chapter Eleven of Fraser's Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the ( Read more... )

On this day, two years ago, I found THE END of Daughter of Hounds. And now, here I am trying to find the beginning of the next novel, Joey LafayeNo writing yesterday, but a lot of figuring out what is to be written. I know now that the book will be set in Athens, Georgia, though I really wanted to set it in New England. This will be my last novel ( Read more... )