Further Adventures of Cat the Cat

real life, winter, ,

It’s getting a little colder, and my cat has already commandeered my brand-new summer sleeping bag. And, uhm… the winter one. He likes to wriggle down inside the footbox and get comfortable. Naturally, this makes him all but invisible, and the end result? Well, I don’t grab any of these things too fast anymore. Cat

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Summing Up and Shutting Down

1 CommentBlogging, Revising, Short Stories, winter, writing, , , ,

Last day of Nano. I didn’t wind up hitting 50,000. I did come up with a bunch of short stories that wouldn’t have existed, if I didn’t set a November goal. Short stories are much more immediate than a novel. It won’t take me six months to revise short stories and get them out the

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Mid-Winter, Mid-Novel, Mid-Revision Blues

querying, Revising, winter, writing

I’m in a funk, right now. Maybe it’s the long nights of winter. Maybe it’s the endless tedium at the day job, or maybe it’s just the latest mid-novel slog. The thing is, I am making progress. I’m writing. I’m revising. I’m even typing those pesky handwritten pages that seem to multiply around me. Morale

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Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference Day One

Events, travel, winter, , ,

I’m going to admit I hit drained pretty early yesterday. I don’t know whether it’s the change in the altitude, or my own shift from my regular schedule to… uhm… normal human being hours and then on to mountain time. Or… quite frankly… the fact of being surrounded by people wearing my allergens (perfume, cologne,

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Winter Fun: Snow, Sleds, and Decapitation

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It is snowing, again. The kind of white on gray snow that only shows up after everyone’s already sick of the rain.  And the sleet. It’s going to be pretty slick, under that top layer of fluff. This would be the time of year when Midwesterners tell their kids about their pioneer ancestors, and all

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