I am not a tortoise, I am a hare. I know this. You know this. Dear Readers, We All Know This. Well, I’ve been very thinky of late, and a bit depressed. I read over a number of old posts to this blog, and I realized several things ( Read more... )

Susie, you have strange hobbies.

It's like this. I take a topic that interests me as the subject for a story. The more research I do, the more interested I become in my research because I like to learn new things and my interest grows with the more I know. Like, would I be as interested in cuckoo marriages if I didn't already know they were ( Read more... )

I've been working on L&W*, and thinking about my writing in general, partly because I can't write the next scene until I make up a sport for my characters to play. I was thinking about this since I made that List Of Everything I've Ever Written Over 5,000 Words or whatever it was, and also, recently on the Urban Fantasy writers community Fangs, Fur ( Read more... )

About the subject line...Don't ask. Let's just say it's one of those things little children sometimes blurt out that doesn't mean necessarily what they think it means. The nepots just left this morning and they took my brain with them! (Help! Help! No, take my brain! I don't need it! That was for you, Elmo.)

ANYWAY, having been moping about the ( Read more... )

First, I was distracted by the "Writers' Block" thing on the Home page. It was "Is there anything in your family that has been passed down from generation to generation? Whom do you plan to give it to?" And I'm sorry to say my first thought was: DMD. No one. We don't have a lot of long-standing heirlooms, just a few dishes and things really. All ( Read more... )

1. Any fans of Prairie Home Companion might have listened to their Duet Contest tonight. I thought I'd mention it, because the winners were Anne and Pete Sibley, who are favorites of mine. Although they are from Jackson, I don't know them personally, though I'm happy to see them getting bigger exposure because I love their music. Which reminds me, ( Read more... )

I wish The Splitting of the World were a better book. I wish it better said what I wanted it to say, what I could say now but didn't have the words for then, and what I will be able to say in the future and can't say now. I wish it were better and I wish many, many, many more people had read it. There were so many things I care about so much in ( Read more... )