I know I had a topic for this blog post, somewhere. Summer’s finally heating up, and–believe it or not–it’s getting humid. I’m going to have to move to a bigger house, just to make room for all my summer hair. I took a quiz on the exact nature of my curls at one point, and
Summer of Fiction Writing 2021: Week One
I should be knee-deep in the Summer of Fiction Writing, but I’m off to a slow start. Family things, starting up again after the pandemic. Family problems. Family stress. I’ve been smiling at people, and thinking… You’re going to be a very small footnote in my biography, someday. I suppose the most diplomatic way of
Googly Eye Graffiti
So, I want to buy things. Maybe that’s a side-effect of being cooped up for so long, or maybe it’s an inevitable part of the return to normal, but… I want to buy things. Let’s pretend that most of those things are things I genuinely need, and just didn’t get around to buying during the
IWSG JUNE 2021: Let it Rest
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The awesome co-hosts for the June 2 posting of the IWSG are J Lenni Dorner, Sarah Foster, Natalie Aguirre, Lee Lowery, and Rachna Chhabria! Want to join us? Sign up Here! The first manuscript or two I wrote, I really wanted there to be a really solid, concrete answer to this question. Something that
Wildlife Encounter of the Third Kind
Today is going to be better than yesterday. Today, I got up, went downstairs to the bathroom, and uhm… that was it. And by the way, I’m appreciating the small things. Yesterday, I got up, went downstairs to the bathroom, and HOLY SHIT, A BAT!!! You know that thing where you just get a glimpse
Weekend Plague
There’s something about working with the public. The incubation period of every disease in the known universe is the exact length of time required to wreck your next day off. Go in to work on a Monday morning, and you will most certainly be feeling feverish by Friday afternoon. On the bright side, you’ll be
IWSG: Reactions from the Readers
The awesome co-hosts for the May 5 posting of the IWSG are Erika Beebe, PJ Colando, Tonja Drecker, Sadira Stone, and Cathrina Constantine! I had a beta reader suggest that my characters needed to be more dragon-y. I don’t know why, since they weren’t dragons in the first place. No. Really. They’re just random
To the Waterfall
I went out to see the waterfall, last week. You’d think there’d be pictures of a waterfall here, but there aren’t. Somehow, I forgot to take any. Here. You can have this nifty picture of the Platte River as seen from the observation tower. I probably got more exercise climbing the tower than I did
And Yet Another Bag…
Sometimes, it seems like all I do is buy bags. Or at least… that I’m above my fair share for the last year or so. I have my revision bag… And I have purses. Well, we’re not talking designer bags. More… I think I can fit a notebook in here, and if I spill ink