I must be channeling Rachel, because I am freezing here at work today. I guess it's my own fault for wearing a t-shirt, but it's not supposed to be cold this week ( Read more... )

I have started my new rewrite. The first four sentences of Third, v. 5.0, have been written ( Read more... )

Had a long chat with Super Agent last night, during which I became aware that over the last week, what started out being a mild character-massaging, word-polishing, clean-up rewrite has turned into a major plot revamping rewrite up to and including the excision of a significant subplot ( Read more... )

In this long novel-writing process, every time I turn around I'm learning something new about writing. With each draft and revision of "Third" I internalize a new valuable lesson about what I'm doing ( Read more... )

You know what I hate? When I get a nice hot cup of coffee from the cafeteria, and I'm sipping it carefully to avoid scalding the entire inside of my mouth, but I miscalculate with the lip action and get a big honking mouthful by mistake. Yeah, I hate that ( Read more... )

Am mailing off two packages today, one to longtimegone and one to my brother's family. Here's hoping the line isn't too long at the UPS store ( Read more... )

I am having one of those weeks when I am seriously having trouble remembering what day it is. All day yesterday I kept thinking it was Wednesday, and so far this morning I keep thinking it's Tuesday. I'm not having a bad week at all, in fact I'm having rather a nice, productive week. I guess I'm just in a weird zone ( Read more... )

Today on the local Wacky Morning DJ show, they were asking people to call in and tell them What You Do Naked (and no, not that ( Read more... )

Well, I'm about 75% done with my rewrite. I think. It could be less ( Read more... )

You know those ads for OnStar that feature happy people getting their cars unlocked by remote, or having their stolen cars found, or getting directions, or a tow truck, all because of the wonderful OnStar system?

The OnStar button is on the dashboard, right? Well...

How the hell do you call OnStar when you're LOCKED OUT OF YOUR CAR?Book update ( Read more... )