Wasted most of my eve online.
*sigh*

Here, have a cookie...Bogie Baggins. Ganked from someone smarter'n me.

Had a good afternoon; crit group met and discussed the books we'd read this year, brain candy and learning epiphanies and inspirations alike.

Realized I hadn't written out my "what I've read this year" in some time. So, lessee. ( This year I've read... )

this, this, this, this.

History and I lack context. Who lived where when and HOW do the Basque fit in? I obviously need this book

Back from a long weekend at the coast with sweetie for our anniversary ( Read more... )

Had an insight/idea this morning that so excited me (it solved a huge riddle in my twelve-planet universe, consolidated a trait across several worlds and allowed for it to develop differently AND IT'S COOL) that I wrote three snippets of short story/book in an hour, making us late to leave. But I'm glad I did it because now I'm tired and not ( Read more... )

I was very proud of myself that I read 19 (and actually more like 21) books last year. That's pretty good for me; I probably should be reading more, but I'd gotten out of the habit of having a book going all the time and more than a book a month was good progress ( Read more... )

About time to finish this off...assuming I finish Downbelow station, I'll have read 19 books this year.
Awesome. Wrote two zero drafts (one was a trunk script, one was a novellette) and finished revising a novel (stabbed the damn thing through the heart with a dagger, it's DONE).

( Books Read and Work Completed in 2011 )

In the last two days I've stumbled, more or less by complete happenstance, over a trick I want to remember: reading aloud as a way of regaining engagement with the world ( Read more... )

Riding overconfidence and its pitfalls (and how that relates to writing). Somebody cool linked to this, I just don't remember who ( Read more... )