OK, I like looking things up -- it's half the fun, really, making sure I get all those nitpicky little details right so that people like me won't get to go AH-HA CAUGHT YOU ( Read more... )

One of my main characters has a sort of office/library where he hangs out a lot, and I had occasion to describe it. I'd already decided he had three van Gogh prints hanging up above some file cabinets and I had to pick which ones they were, so I spent a lovely half hour looking through van Gogh paintings. *sigh* Yay ( Read more... )

Hello teh words! They are coming pretty fast tonight ( Read more... )

My mother told me before she died that the older she got the less she cared what people thought. Of course she was always kind of a pistol, but I think I know what she meant. I don't worry so much about offending people anymore. It's not that I take pleasure in it; I just don't care. If they love me, they'll get over it. If they don't, they ( Read more... )

I found my characters in the midst of WWI. I hadn't thought, until I got to that point in the timeline, about prevailing attitudes in Britain and the US, and realized there was no freaking way that six apparently able-bodied young men would be able to avoid going to war without scandal, unless they went underground. And this when they're trying ( Read more... )

When I was a wee girl in Amarillo and gave up my cherished ambition to become a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader in favor of writing great American novels, I wish someone had told me that one day I'd be 37 years old and spending Thanksgiving morning combing the internets trying to find out what kind of identification people carried in 1954 and what the ( Read more... )

But it's just emotion translated into words, so really, I don't know why I'm worried about if it's any good. Okay, that's not strictly true because I'm always horrifically insecure about my poetry no matter how good a reception it gets; but it's been a very long time since I wrote any and the one thing I remember is that I am no judge of my own ( Read more... )

1. I am now completely caught up on Torchwood, and the main thing I have to say is that if James Marsters keeps playing hopeless romantics, I may implode. Also, Tosh and Owen ( Read more... )

I can already tell I'm going to have to do a lot of cutting to make this novel work, but right now I'm focusing on getting it written ( Read more... )

After a very productive, frustrating, and emotional day with work, the book, and Mr. Moonbeam, I read this in my E-mail, from Katherine Paterson's pep talk for NaNo this week:

I live in Barre, Vermont which calls itself the "Granite Capital of the World." Outside our town are enormous quarries, so when I speak in local schools every child has a ( Read more... )