Yesterday I got side-tracked into a train of consciousness in a character whom I'd thrown into the story because ...well, need more than one field operative in a mission. I figured a five-person team would be manageable for my imagination and that at least one of them should be female and Lees Martin appeared. Purely a background character ( Read more... )

... or why I didn't keyboard in yesterday's work ( Read more... )

As I understand it, writers are superstitious ... some writers, not all. They need the right pen, paper the proper size and line width, the comfortable chair, the correct device and document settings and if they don't have everything just right, the dissonance prevent the flow of creation ( Read more... )

I'll be substituting in the hs library everyday for the next three or four weeks. In by 7, hopefully out before 2 - if I'm not out before 2, I won't get out until 2:20 or so because ... well, that's how crowded the parking lot can be ( Read more... )

The first time she saw him. A tall, distinguished-looking man in the prime of life, he was standing in Mrs. Scott's front drawing room. She and Sam had just been welcomed in, she didn't even have her coat off, but there he was, frowning at the table in the middle of the room ( Read more... )

Not for the ghost squad story - definitely NOT! But for Caitlin Kittredge's Black London series. Watching someone throw one tantrum after another in the hope that s/he can bull the way through the situation by brute force is not entertaining. I prefer cleverness and skill. Not ... this ( Read more... )

I'm subbing today, 11 to 3, so when I realised the cat was planning to sleep with me, I shut the bedroom door to keep her out. Not tightly enough, however. It didn't latch and so she was settled on my bed when I finally decided to turn in ... @ 11 ( Read more... )

After all that hype, sturm and drang, Janus dropped but 2 inches on us. Don't know what folks east and south of us got, they were supposed to be hit worse. Took M 75 min to get home last night - almost twice as long as his usual commute, but that was due to traffic, everyone rushing to beat the storm, resulting in no one rushing anywhere ( Read more... )

That's what I am to the ShadowCat this morning. Despite her pointed and very sharp reminders, I insisted on staying in the library, on the couch, feet up on my father-in-law's hassock, writing on Dana instead of sensibly sitting at the kitchen table, with the netbook connected to the internet (i.e. being distracted). Re-writing, actually. ( Read more... )

Because my story draws so strongly from the Carmina Gadelica, I sort of started looking through it and decided that I wanted a paper copy of some of the prayers/invocations/spells. I thought about going the usual "type it into a computer file and print it out" ... and tried to do so ... but it felt wrong. So, the past week or so, I've been ( Read more... )