1. Correction: upon review it turns out Spallanzani was a priest, so there wasn't a Signora Spallanzani in the picture, and quite possibly he did have to sew his own taffeta overalls for mating frogs ( Read more... )

Still not writing, or thinking very hard about writing. Fall TV season has started. The combination of commute-shortened evenings and, holy crap! An hour of TV to watch every night! (Castle, Detroit 1-8-7, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, CSI:NY - it's sort of tidy, how that worked out with one show per night, but homg a show to watch every night) ( Read more... )

I went to look at my booklist in preparation for posting for the first time in a while and discovered I've read twelve books in the last thirty-two days. So I guess that's what I've been doing while I've been not posting. That and watching a lot of Holmes on HomesAs for the books: four of them were Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series, ( Read more... )

Another Tuesday, another writing night. It's not co-working week, and there's too much snow to go out just for the sake of going out, so I put on my big girl pants, turned off my browser, and sat at my desk to write for a couple more hours. Story cracked 5,000 words, which means it's now longer than the first draft. Unfortunately, judging by how ( Read more... )