On Thursday night, I went to see Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Saratoga Mountain Winery. Seeing this band in concert is particularly notable because I wasn't familiar with their music until years after they broke up. Toad was big (well, as big as they would get) in the early 90s, during which time I was aware of two of their songs from the radio ( Read more... )

I'm late with last month's writing status report because I've been on vacation (more on that to follow). I didn't do any writing during my time away, though, so this is pretty much the same update I would have posted a week ago. ( status )

Thanks to everyone who provided commentary on my spectacles spectacle. ( glasses voting results )

My progress in July was SLOW. I lost a week to being sick, and my writing output decreased during my trip to LA and while reading Harry Potter. Throughout the month, my motivation was low and distraction level high in many areas, not just writing. So there's not much to report in this update. ( But here's what there is. )

I posted my first writing status report at the end of April. Two or three weeks later, I was on the verge of writing another, but then I didn't quite get around to it, and then a week or so after that, I had entirely different experiences to report, so I was going to post about that contrast. Then it was the middle of June, and I still hadn't ( Read more... )

Since February of 1998, I've kept a pen-and-paper journal that I write in every night before I go to bed. This means I have an astoundingly detailed record of much of my adult life, which my future biographers will be grateful for, though they will require a cryptanalyst to decipher my handwriting ( Read more... )

I had an excellent writing weekend, making good progress on both of my projects. I produced a whole bunch of words, and I had some realizations. Here's what's going on in my literary life:

( status report )

Phew! I finally finished chapter 16, aka The Chapter That I Thought Would Never End. It's tough having a main character who won't behave. I think that the next chapter will go more smoothly, but we'll see ( Read more... )

Today is Marco's birthday. Marco isn't real, but as the main character of the novel I'm writing, he's been a very important person in my life lately ( Read more... )