Operation: Find the Floor is progressing very well. I have completed phase 3 - filing, phase 4 - throwing shit out, phase 5 - boxing shit up, and phase 6 - vaccuuming. The office is now effectively usable. And mostly dust-free. I still need to make another trip to Goodwill, another trip to Ikea, and figure out a safe way to get rid of two old ( Read more... )

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I get one day off in a week. This is how today has gone ( Read more... )

Hi guys,

I have some exciting news and a huge favour to ask. One of my short travel pieces has been short-listed in a writing contest. The prize is a few nights in Chicago and some money to write further pieces for them. I'm really excited about this!

The sucky part is that you have to get people to vote for you in order to make it to the last round ( Read more... )

I have a question, mostly for my writer-friends...

Anyone have any idea why I randomly received a copy of Jim Butcher's Storm Front in the mail today? I didn't order it, but it had my correct name and address on it. It was shipped from New Jersey, but had an "if undeliverable return to" address in Belgium. My dad took it down to the basement to open ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal,

Fuck off with the obnoxious video ads.

We have the fireplace channel on my mom's giant TV. And I'm using youtube to play my favourite christmas carols so I don't need to listen to the eighteenth version of a choral rendition of jingle bells on the radio ( Read more... )

I took a couple of days away from my nano story, just because I could. And, actually, a few more days to let it settle might not be the worst thing. But I printed it out tonight. My 50,000 words ended up being 81 pages, single-spaced. I've never written 50,000 words of any one thing before, and holding the giant wodge of paper in my hand, getting ( Read more... )

This post started as a response to this blog post, but it got long so I thought I'd spare the strangers my navel gazing and inflict it on my friends instead.

This is my first year doing NaNo. It's something I've wanted to try for a while, and this year worked well, because my job wasn't going to get in the way. It has been an interesting exercise.

I ( Read more... )

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