Over on MJ Rose’s blog, Kevin Smokler wrote a fascinating guest post earlier this week with the same title. I consider myself reasonably geeky. I got rid of the glasses back in March, but I still think pocket protectors make a lot of sense. I learned things in this essay … Continue reading →
The first pass is complete. Now all I have to do is fix the opening, the ending, and parts of the middle. Piece of cake, right?
Continue reading →It’s getting closer to the end of the first pass. I’ll probably finish that tomorrow morning. Then I will begin applying what I’m learning from Self Editing for Fiction Writers from the beginning. As you may recall, I recommended this book awhile back. I applied some of what I learned … Continue reading →
Ever wondered why inhaling oxygen seems to cause you to gain weight? Well, there might be an answer for part of it–especially if you’re female and over 40. See, if you haven’t figured it out yet, that’s when our bodies start preparing us for “The Change.” Usually discussed in hushed … Continue reading →
I love baked potatoes. I don’t recommend inhaling them. I was able to draw a breath fairly quickly after a soft mouthful went down the wrong pipe, but this was one time when the headline “WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN FRONT OF COMPUTER: Choked on baked potato” flashed through my mind–briefly. … Continue reading →
I haven’t been talking about it much, but work continues on Twilight. I’ve been steadily pruning and have made it to 67,528 out of 91,173 in the document. I got nearly 10,000 words done this morning while waiting for my pre-move inspection (where they come and estimate the packing materials … Continue reading →
I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with Firefox. It’s probably me, but some of the problems I’m experiencing are: Inability get into my website for admin without turning off ZoneAlarm. Oddly, it works fine with IE. ZoneAlarm, IE, and Firefox all put out updates at about the same time, and something got … Continue reading →
Mark Cuban blogs about something we writers should be very interested in–he proposes a music tax. As one of his commenters points out, how long before we pay an “I got shot” tax or, in our case, a tax to protect the intellectual property of our writings. The $750 per … Continue reading →
When I returned from my deployment last year, my beloved Nokia 6120 cell phone could not be resurrected. As I went out the door in May, I turned it off and laid it on the bookshelf in the office. When I returned in September, I plugged it in, but it … Continue reading →
I’m back, but I suspect driving from 6am Central time until 8:30pm Eastern time plays a large part in me being exceedingly grumpy. That and the four messages on my answering machine from someone who’d been told I’d be out of town last week at least three times–twice in writing. … Continue reading →