New excerpt, sampling the third subplot in ARROW: a College Tail. Francis is a raccoon but he wishes he had been born a wolf. When he writes about it and reads his work in his composition class, he is suddenly presented with an odd-sounding but apparently desirable opportunity.

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Slow but steady progress. The loose ends are now visible rather than being just in my head. Had to make a timeline, using the Chatton calendar. Dates like 18 Bear 347 CY and 29 II Wolf 348 CY don't help, but I insist that they be correct ( Read more... )

Steed and Bear arrived Friday evening from MFF, and we went out for dinner and hung out. They stayed overnight and this morning we had breakfast (I made an apple-filled German pancake, with bacon and lots of coffee) and we played around with the horses and dogs and then took photos of Steed in his fursuit before they went back to the hotel to catch ( Read more... )

For those who remember my 2007 NaNo novel, which appeared with the working title The Argosiad, here is an excerpt chapter from this year's book. The story is a mystery with a double timeline, in which current events seem to mimic a series of murders 120 years earlier. At this time, Fennec and Hammel are both students in Chatton, and in this chapter ( Read more... )

Gary's back home, but I didn't get him here until 8 pm. Those people sure run on some other dimension of time, or else they really are billing the insurance (and us) by the minute. He was supposed to have a stress test first thing in the morning, but they kept putting it off. Finally at noon they got around to it. Then he had to wait for the ( Read more... )

Finally. The last load of hay for the winter got here at 8:30 this morning, so I ended up late for work. In order for the truck and hay wagon to get into the arena, we have to fold up the portable panels that make up Tess's pen. In turn, that means she stays in her stall or goes out to the pasture until the pen can be reassembled. Since I had to go ( Read more... )

Desk buried. Network stuff broken. Mailbox stuffed. The usual ( Read more... )

Managed to stifle most of the distractions this afternoon ( Read more... )

OK, so I'm doing something I've never ever done before. I'm writing the end of the book before the middle. Because I know how it's supposed to come out, and I'm having all sorts of blocks at the middle part. Also because I really really dislike Stefan Ulf now and having to write his journal for him is causing brain damage. Really ( Read more... )

Good thing I have that rug on the loom. I can go pound it for a few picks to empty out some frustration. Not exactly writer's block, because I know what I want to be writing. The problem is too many threads at once, and (unusual for me) I'm having trouble focusing on one at a time ( Read more... )