So the neighbors made us cupcakes for Easter. This, of course, ends with me goofing around with cupcakes, microwaves, and the digital camera on my Blackberry…
( A bit photo intensive, but trust me, you'll wanna see this. )

So I went to a writer's retreat this weekend. In a dome house. It was fun ( Read more... )

katster’s handy fix-it-down and do-it-to-yourself type tips for winning NaNoWriMo with your sanity (mostly) intact…

This is a reprint of an article I put in my LJ last year.

The first and most important is that “It’s Nano. Embrace the suck.” (This is actual advice I gave last year to the Sacramento Nanoers. It’s advice I will be giving again this ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write about this since the Pennsy trip, but first that trip and then Westercon got in the way of making this post, so I want to share with you now (and maybe get a few more pre-orders on the book.)

In the fall of 2005, shortly after my namesake hurricane took out New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, I was approached on Pyramoo by macklinr ( Read more... )

Alright, so who had November 30th, 2006 at 10:13:00 in the pool?

Yeah, I did it. Barely and by the skin of my teeth, but I did it. Worse than I thought it was going to go that first week, but better than the despair that I was actually not going to finish.

...just, again, the book is BARELY GETTING STARTED. :P

my brain is pastede on yay ( Read more... )

Zokutou is down, and that's where I've been getting my word meters, so I'll go with this one for today.


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There was neither non-existence or existence then ( Read more... )

This is in response to my offer to fairoriana to offer tips on how to make it through. rolypolypony took me up on it. And then I figured it's probably general interest, so I decided to post it here ( Read more... )