Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Untitled (seriously) Due Date: April 1st (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 21,525 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 18 days I am two days from the self-imposed deadline I had set for myself to have this …
I’d like to spend a little bit of time talking about getting organized. I know. “Organization” isn’t the sexiest word in the world, but, at least on some level, it’s a necessity. How about if we call it: Doing Battle with the Forces of Chaos!!! …
Impostor: imˈpästər – A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain. Tricksy, false… Fake. Sometimes I feel like this. Not when I’ve dragged myself out of bed at 5 in the morning, waiting for the coffee to start working. I feel it when I think about the good stuff: …
I’m going to start this post with a digression. I know, right? Anyway. This is not meant to be a “Poor me” kind of post. Part of what I’m doing here is documenting the weird, wild, world that is a writer’s life. End digression. On with the post… Here …
Every Sunday when I hit “Publish” to send another of these posts out there into the Interwebs, I think to myself: “Self –” (What? What else would I call myself…anyway) “Self, now that you’ve gotten another post up, you’ve got seven whole days to get to work on the next one. Hows about you spend …
Am I doing enough? I ask myself this question a lot. Particularly after weeks like this past one when the day-job is needier than usual and for a good chunk of the work week, I’m getting home from work (or getting off work) a few minutes before I’m supposed to go to bed… Well, it throws …
A couple of weeks ago, I came back from the Doctor’s office to report that I had a strained hamstring in my left leg. I don’t know how I did it. It came on gradually…well as gradually as something like this can sneak up on you. For those of you that have never had one, …
I wanted to get to this sooner, but I didn’t want it to get buried under the mass of New Year’s Resolution, Anti-New Year’s Resolution, “Boy I am *Never* going to do that again” posts. I figured, “Well, maybe wait a week…” One week became two and I, somehow, managed to forget that there are …
I’ve taken up going for walks on a (somewhat) regular basis. Partially, it’s because I need the exercise but, mostly, it’s because walking is about all my recovering shoulder can handle. Even then, the pendulum motion of my arm starts my shoulder to aching after a while. Today was a good day for a walk. …
I am a quiet person. OK, I’m going to stop for a moment here so that those of you that know me can get the inevitable chuckle out of your system. Or maybe you know me so well that you’re not chuckling at all. I am quiet. My favorite time of the day is when it …