I’m opposed to Federal funding of abortion for a reason I suspect many people haven’t considered. Some of you know I believe elective abortions in the first trimester (at the very least) need to be legal. After that, I have grave concerns unless there’s a purely medical reason for performing … Continue reading →
I finished Week 3 of HTRYN last night. That means I’m ready to start Week 4. Week 4 involves spreading my index cards out and categorizing them as PLOT, SUBPLOT, and NOTPLOT (all those scenes that went WAAAAY off the reservation, so to speak). This should be kind of fun.
Continue reading →Did you miss out on How To Think Sideways or How To Revise Your Novel when sign-ups were open? Weren’t ready to take either class when it was offered? You have another chance for either class. Holly has opened both, and there’s no waiting. Sign up and begin your class … Continue reading →
I attended InnoTech San Antonio today. I haven’t been to a technology conference for a couple of years, and I wanted to see how much I was missing. I felt pretty comfortable, but I’d thought I might see more of my former military colleagues (either military or civilian). I ran … Continue reading →
I was puttering around, minding my own business. I trolled through my Bloglines feed and pulled up Tech’s 51313 Harbor Street. I’m behind on reading. I was out of town over the weekend, but in the back of my mind, I knew he’d written two new posts in the last … Continue reading →
The roofers arrived right on time this morning to begin re-roofing the shop. This daunting task will cost almost as much as buying the building, but it has to be done. Without a roof we can trust, well, the building doesn’t matter. We still have lots more work to do, … Continue reading →
Cell phone reception in the Central Texas house is iffy at best. We’re about a block outside the range of really good ATT Edge service (to get 3G, we have to be closer to Temple). Inside the house, the house structure tends to make reception spotty. Since we get free … Continue reading →
True to form, I’m averaging about a month to complete each week’s lesson in the How to Revise Your Novel course. I started Week 3 this week, which requires me to summarize each scene in the novel in one Sentence For Revision. This helps us see what’s missing from a … Continue reading →
I just finished reading Marley and Me by John Grogan. I may be the last person on the planet to read the book, but I’d been eyeing it since it was released a few years ago, and I finally took the plunge. For the first half of the book or … Continue reading →
I have a few email accounts without external spam filters, so I get to filter quite a bit of email spam. It’s pretty easy to spot. I click on “delete from server” and “Junk” and usually don’t pay any attention to it. But I received a new twist on the … Continue reading →