1. Edna St. Vincent Millay. I am re-reading her collected poems, from start to finish, staging a dramatic reading right from my bed. Her words are always such a comfort to me ( Read more... )

Still alive. Still writing. It goes... apace. I've gotten up at kitty o'clock (read: 5:30-6am) and wrote most days this week, but the quantity of my output hasn't been great. I just passed 22k for the month, and the scene I just finished took me most of the week. It was a violent scene, with a character who's a bastard doing bastardly things, and I ( Read more... )

Last night, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of eating kaitenzushi! This was made significantly easier by the place that opened in the Natick Mall, Wasabi, which as far as I can tell from their website (which has a bad case of Dark Side of the Moon) is a small chain mostly in the DC area. How it found its way to Massachusetts, I don't know. But the ( Read more... )