I have been watching the news and working the day job today, and I really didn’t get much else done. Well, a page here and there, and some more plodding toward a revised draft of the book du jour. Why is it always the day when you have the least time that the really fun

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An Update

I spent a couple of hours at the park, working on short story revisions. I got a lot done. I’m not sure whether that’s the lack of anyplace else to go, or the vague awareness that I have an audience. I got through thirty pages or so. I was surprised at how much I like

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It’s past my bedtime, and here I am, trying to squeeze one more thing into my day. Hello, Blog Post. The hour-by-hour scheduling has been working pretty well. It’s just that I run out of hours before I run out of work. Tomorrow, I’ll be giving the revision as much time as I can. I’m

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The Author in Conversation With… a Non-Writer

This morning, on very little caffeine and even less sleep, I found myself in one of those conversations. You know the kind… And then… it strayed into money. (How exactly did this guy know I was working on a novel? I’m sure I didn’t tell him.) (Why, yes… as a matter of fact he is

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Day Planners for Odd Hours

I’m busy re-organizing my day. After a brief stint browsing through daily planners–the kind with an hourly schedule to fill in–I’m back to doodling my own in the bullet journal. For me, the problem with the pre-printed ones is that my day doesn’t start at the usual hour, and it ends… uhm… early. I have

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The Great Umbrella Inversion

My new hiking umbrella arrived four days ago. Today, it broke. One umbrella rib down. The result is… a little limp on one side. It’s just one rib. So, the thing still For the record, that’s a total of about ten miles. It’s less mileage than the five-dollar, no-promises-made umbrella that I got on a

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Long Day

So, here’s a picture of a lake. The water was warm.