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... chapter five finished. After mental Cirque de Soleil.
I finished my chapter. Would have done it sooner, but I wrote myself down a blind alley and had to delete and go in a different direction. It was very interesting to think my way through it, though ... I had to describe a horror scene, and I started out writing it as if it was modern horror, you know, where you start out with innocent expendable ( Read more... ) -
Two short books, one short story
It strikes me that I'm doing things right with my approach to publishing as a business. That is, last month I had a neat idea about marketing my book Sungoddess: I created an extra edition, splitting the book into two shorter books, with new (and beautiful, I have to say) covers. Matching covers, mirror images of each other. The book splits ( Read more... ) -
Still apropos of naught
... finished now. Well, that went fast ( Read more... ) -
apropos of nothing
Today I have the satisfaction of my own copy of "A Memory of Light". Delivered to my door via the miracle of Amazon, twenty-odd years in the waiting ... at last, plot conclusion. Nine hundred pages of plot conclusion, with swordfights. Happiness. -
Bizarre but great
And by "bizarre but great" I mean it's great that I won the fifty-fifty draw at work - whee! ninety-four dollars out of the blue! - but hey, it's the first time I've won anything since I was, uh, eight. When I was eight I won a lovely cake at an afternoon tea draw. How beautiful it was, with silver trimmettes all over, huge and fancy. How sad I was ( Read more... ) -
Absolutely unrelated to Thanksgiving!
I had a tooth pulled today. I'd been bracing myself for it, as who wouldn't; last night at this time I was telling myself, "Twenty-four hours and you'll be all through it, though with a sore jaw." Because nobody likes having work done at the dental surgeon's ( Read more... ) -
Snow in Calgary
Winter weather arrived here yesterday; it snowed lightly all day, and now the view out of the window is stereotypical winter whiteness. White sky, white lawns, white rooftops and trees full of snow. It's not all that cold, and the streets are perfectly clear and dry today, but still: all white. Maybe a hundred minor accidents on the city streets, ( Read more... ) -
Somewhat about books that are dogs
Caesar the Wonder Dog got his claws clipped. I mean, was subjected to the dreadful trauma of claw-clipping. I took him to a tiny dog-grooming business down by the Dairy Queen (I hadn't been there before) and it was great (except maybe from Caesar's viewpoint) - I picked him up and handed him to one of the girls who does the grooming, and she turned ( Read more... ) -
Oooh, self-indulgence
The problem with cooking experiments is that you have to eat them afterward, and in the case of chocolate souffle, you have to eat the whole thing because I hear it doesn't keep in the refrigerator. Next time I'm making a half-recipe. Chocolate souffle and fresh-baked fruit bread ... yum, but thank goodness I have a cast-iron digestion, that's all ( Read more... ) -
Matiere et san li done et livre ...
Ki de bone matiere traite,
Mult le peise si bien n'est faire.
Oez, seignurs, ke dit Marie,
Ki en sum tens pas ne s'oblie.
Whoever has good material for a story is grieved
if the tale is not well told.
Hear, my lords, the words of Marie,
who in her own time does not squander her talents.
--Marie de France, prologue to GuigemarMatiere et san li ( Read more... )