Life has left me struggling to find time and energy to write, lately.
I got my laptop back from Dell in great working order, but then I promptly managed to get it infected with some adware that neither my primitive virus checker (AVG) nor the various free antispyware programs could handle. After a couple days of [...]
My short story, “Becoming,” was about two months out at a fledging but high-paying horror market which has just informed the authors of all its pending submissions that it is going out of business. This is the first time that something like this has happened to me, but I realize it is something writers [...]
Ups and downs in my writing lately…
Slow progress is being made on Honeycutt Tales. My coauthor has been quite busy with her own life lately, but I’ve also had some good ideas about the story I’ve been working on and added a few new words. I wrote a great Heinlein-style rant in favor of [...]
I finished another review tonight, of Richard Dansky’s Firefly Rain. It still took me a while to write, but it came significantly easier than the last one. If I can stay in the habit of writing these regularly I’m sure they will come easier and easier with time.
We had Jennifer over tonight for a writing [...]
I’ve decided to start writing book reviews again. I’ve been working for the last couple days on a review of Tanith Lee’s Indigara with minimal success; my review skills felt very rusty. When I complained to Reesa, she responded without a moment’s hesitation, “have you reread your old reviews?”
I had not. I did, and within [...]
I wrote a little ramble on unreality in world building over on
Here at the Slutbarn we spent pretty much all day today rearranging to make room for the addition of Steve, and to create a shared workspace for all three of us. We moved boxes and furniture into a storage room and then installed new furniture we’d purchased for the purpose.
Though it isn’t finished yet I’m [...]