This week's Odd Prompts writing challenge at More Odds than Ends is from Becky Jones: Portable time machines ain’t all they’re cracked up to be.I wasn't sure if I really wanted to start writing a time travel story, when I have so many starts that I've never finished. Maybe a very short, funny story about the absurd pickle a time traveler might get ( Read more... )

I am not a morning person, so I always look forward to the Fall time change and dread the Spring one ( Read more... )

Why is it that, the more you need to get done, the more other people keep piling more to-do's on you ( Read more... )

Sarah Hoyt got this week's vignette challenge up at last. My effort is a Chaffee Artilect story from after he becomes a wanderer through paratime, and finds that timeline.

Even with all the crazy stuff devouring one after another day and leaving me with crumbs o writing time, I actually got the story done. Probably not one of my greatest, but it's done and its in. And there's a little time if something were to glitch ( Read more... )

I just got an announcement that LiveJournal is now twenty-five years old, and there will be some special celebratory activities this month ( Read more... )

Which is a day late, and a perfect illustration of how I feel throughout DST -- always running late. I'm a night owl, which means that I'm always struggling with mornings. Making everything an hour earlier just makes it worse ( Read more... )

Today is a day that happens only once every four years -- except in years ending in 00 but not divisible by four. It's necessary to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons -- but there's always a certain oddness about it ( Read more... )

It's been a little less than four months since I pulled our business van back in the driveway after Grand Rapids Comic Con. I knew that it would be far too easy to let that time dribble through my fingers and have nothing to show for it ( Read more... )

So glad that DST ended yesterday. Dealing with mornings will be so much easier when they don't come quite so early ( Read more... )