It wasn't as hard to write as it waould have been if I had tried to write it before futzing around for two weeks, looking at pictures, picking people's brains, reading stuff, making six or seven false starts. But it wasn't easy, and it will certainly need a lot of attention in the revision ( Read more... )

So apparently I am exploring all the different ways a person can have a magical affinity for trees. The latest story has a couple of guys constructed from willow twigs in order to be servants of black magicians. I have an unfinished one about a person who is more or less a dryad. And there is not-Poland, in which the sister is a botanist with extra ( Read more... )

But I can't look at it till it's cold.

edit . . . and, I am informed, two more while I was out for less than an hour.

I really wish I did not have to do this every six months.

Personhead carbonel said in response to my previous post:

"Threat" is all the bad things that could happen to you, from getting a paper cut to being killed by a suicide bomber. You can't change a threat. It exists ( Read more... )

Have to be at work an hour earlier so I was anxious about being efficient this morning and I did it! 2000+ words (rounded down again) before seven in the morning (I'm not thinking about it much but I believe they are mostly keepers ( Read more... )

First trap, first night set: productive. Rat is so small I thought it was a mouse till I saw the ears ( Read more... )

I saw sign of rat today.

Damn it.

I never thought much about "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," but it seems there really is a historical mystery that it addresses: the town chronicles of Hameln begin in 1384 with the statement "It is a hundred years since our children left ( Read more... )

When Emma made the switch from pc to mac, she left her drawing tablet with me. It didn't work so well with paintshop and I was about to throw it away today, feeling wistful about the whole thing, when I remembered I have photoshop now. . . it works! Like a charm! so much better than sketching with a mouse. I still don't have control over the ( Read more... )

I'm not a very good housekeeper at the best of times. Depressed, I'm worse. I'm worse still when I'm not well ( Read more... )