Right now, time feels that way. I'm been fighting the same low-grade headache for four days ( Read more... )

This is a day when I fucked shit up. Note: I am not afraid of dentists. Not at all. I am not afraid of the pain, the blood, any of it, and some sort of dental phobia has nothing to do with my teeth have always been bad, and why they have gotten diasterously bad the last three years. It also has nothing to do with how an axiety attack stopped me ( Read more... )

I think I slept three hours last night. I woke at 2:30 a.m., then got up at 3 a.m. So that one good night's sleep seems to have been a fluke.

Our high today was 53F, after a nightly low of 24F.

I started working at 4 a.m. and did another 1,088 words on "A First Sequence of Scenes." I made two pages of handwritten notes for The Night Watchers. I ( Read more... )

Sunny today. A rematkable high of 81F!

Last night, rather than going to bed like a same human being, I dragged my exausted meat bag to this desk and tried to write the fifth interlude for The Night Watchers. I managed two paragraphs that will have to be rewritten, the gave up about 11:30 p.m., when I realized I was just too fried to work. I laid ( Read more... )

Sunny for most of the day. Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 96F.

A decent day, given the way things have been going. This morning I was up at 5 a.m., I stripped the title "Mons Niloticus" off the story I'd been trying to write and "repurposed" it for a new new story. I did 1,011 words, and I like it. I mean the piece have it done sometime ( Read more... )

Hot and sunny today. Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 96F.

No writing this morning. I did try.

The day was divided between reading and documentaries. I finished Harlan's Paingod and Other Delusions and began his From the Land of Fear (1967 ( Read more... )

Rainy all day. Again. Well, there were a few precious minutes of sunlight. The high was 73˚F.

This may be the year Alabama has no winter.

A friend just told me that a new survey has shown that Alabama has the most conservative legislature in the country, while Rhode Island has the third least conservative. None of that comes as a surprise. But it ( Read more... )

How long has it been since we've lost fiction writers to advances in technology? Sadly, probably not all that long. But I have personally reached a point where I have editors and publishers who expect me to be willing and able to work with editing technology I neither own nor comprehend. I tend to just walk away from those projects, rather than ( Read more... )

A chilly, sunny day. Our high was 64˚F, but it never felt that warm. However, truly warm temperatures are arriving over the next couple of days.

Today Kathryn read "Night Fishing" (and liked it a lot; a "slow burn" she said), and then I read all the way through it again. I'll make the last bunch of line edits in the morning and email it away to ( Read more... )

A rainy day, but there were spots of sun. Sun spots. Chilly. Our high was, briefly, 58, and it is currently 44˚F.

I have had less productive days. I began a new vignette, for Sirenia Digest 191 (December 2021), "Metamorphosis D (Imago)." I think it will come quickly; it feels like an easy birth. I worked on Winifred ( Read more... )