Today was a rather long day. Ang and I had gone to a friend's house last night for dinner and some gaming. We got to see some friends we hadn't seen in over a year and introduce them to Terra Mystica--currently one of our favorite games. Unfortunately, the fact that there were two new players meant that the rules had to be explained which took a ( Read more... )

My friend Monique (gentle_dream) created this 15 day blog challenge. I've been meaning to start doing it, but life kept conspiring and coming up with things that kept me from doing it. So, here I am! I might actually do a couple days at a time from time to time, just because I know there are going to be days that I wind up missing due to crazy life/work ( Read more... )

I'm having a squee-worthy moment here. Yesterday I spent most of the day working on the cover for Fires and today I finished it. I am SO HAPPY with how it came out. I didn't think I'd be this happy with it because it's not the original image that I wanted to use (see userpic), but this is SO MUCH BETTER! I love it so much <3 I just finished writing ( Read more... )

I've been trying to plan out a novel for several weeks. I've got part of the outline done and have been working on character descriptions etc on my way to and from work each day. But there was one part I was stuck on: the why. I'm writing a crime novel, and the why in a crime novel is just as important as the actual crime itself. So not knowing ( Read more... )

Now that I have a job, I really want to get back to my writing. When I moved here I put it aside because finding a job and figuring out a place to live were the most important things. Writing, while it keeps me sane, would not allow me to stay here, with Angelo, in the place that I love. I'm still looking for a place to live--us and a few friends ( Read more... )

Being here has had an interesting effect on me ( Read more... )

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete, like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."

--The Concourt Journals

~*~This passage was read in a movie I ( Read more... )

I'm in a very quiet kind of mood, but I wanted to note the day. Angelo left for Evo a little bit ago (he's in flight) and since I accompanied him to the airport, I had to get myself back home by myself. That meant taking a subway and PATH on my own, and also walking in New York alone. I easily did all of these things without missing anything, and ( Read more... )

Spent this evening at home writing. It's nice. This isn't really something I'm used to. Angelo is a writer, I'm a writer. All I have to say is "honey, I need to write" and there isn't a question to it. I don't have to explain why I need to put headphones on, or why I have to write RIGHT NOW. That's something I haven't really had before. Back in ( Read more... )

I just got back from an amazing day in New York. Angelo and I are hosting friends for the weekend that have never been to NY, and so we (or really, Angelo) are showing them around a bit. I love these people and am really happy to be able to see them again ( Read more... )