I took the advice offered and took about a week's break, but I went ahead and did the easiest of the major revisions (changing a character's gender) during some downtime at work. The change to my schedule was that I didn't write at home The rest of the revisions are going to be a little more difficult because it involves potentially rewriting whole ( Read more... )

I've been feeling like a post on the political climate should be forthcoming, but anything I thought of sounded bitter or silly or whiny. But then I read a post on a good friend's xanga and I knew that was what I wanted to say. So here it is. Not my brillance, but what I wish I would have said.

So I was reading the news today and there is ( Read more... )

Just finished reading a chapter in Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller (chapter 2 I believe). In it he talked about how the problems of the world-the genocide in the Congo was his example-wouldn’t go away until the real problem, ourselves, is addressed.

“Nothing is going to change in the Congo until you and I figure out what is wrong with he person in ( Read more... )

I'm stating the obvious here, but there's something horrifically wrong with humanity. When a milkman can coldly plan to rape and kill little innocent Amish girls who never did anything to him, when two high school students can brutally murder their own classmates, and now when a college student goes on a shooting spree because of what seems to be a ( Read more... )