Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Podcast for March 2010
I just finished doing a new Podcast. Hopefully it will be the start of a trend. I think we’ll try for a podcast about once a month. I answered some questions from my forum. I also answered a question I’d been getting on both Twitter and Facebook. What are copyedits? Answered in the podcast. I talk about Flirt, Bullet, and the book I’ll be working on after that.
One of the things that has prevented me from doing more frequent podcasts is a certain techno-phobia, but I’ve nearly conquered that. The other stumbling block was my perfectionist streak. But… Read More
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Sunday, March 07, 2010
Morning with Hawk, Squirrel, and Musings
I was going to blog about watching “Up” last night, or trying to, but when I opened the drapes on the living room windows this morning I got a surprise. A large hawk was sitting on the ground underneath one of the bird feeders. At first I thought she was a young Red-Tail, because of the size, but it was a Cooper’s Hawk, all streaked with her I’m-a-teenager-feathers. But she is the second young Cooper’s hawk that is frequenting our yard this year that is that big and beefy. I’ve never seen them this big. I expected the hawk to… Read More
Friday, March 05, 2010
The Adventure of the Leather Dress
Part II of Highlights from our out of town visit, or, The Adventure of the Leather Dress:
First, I’m allergic to wool. Yes, that does mean that most of what my friend Wendi knits is “death” to me. She has to sanitize the house for me, but luckily my allergy to wool seems to be contact only. I must touch the stuff, so she just hides most of her yarny goodness in the other guest room and I have to not touch her current project. Though the plaid on the loom is actually cotton so it’s safe for me. Yay!… Read More
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Highlights from our Getaway Part I
Jon and I went away for a long weekend, or a short week: five days. Either way, here are the highlights from that getaway:
First, I actually didn’t work while I was gone. I didn’t check e-mail, or twitter, or facebook, or myspace, or any other social network. I made two notes on the last day we were there, because they were new ideas. New ideas run away and escape if you do not write them down. This maybe the longest real vacation I’ve ever allowed myself. Is that frightening, impressive, or both?
We visited our friends Wendi and Daven.… Read More
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fever Dreams, Sex, and Zombies
The strange and more vivid dreams continue, my imagination playing in my head because it’s not getting to play on paper, but then I got a fever. The combination of my untapped imagination and a fever made for a very interesting night in dreamland. Cue the maniacal laughter now. Wa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
You know how with a fever sometimes you don’t sleep well? It’s a fitful, restless kind of sleep, so that you sometimes feel less rested the next day, and you usually have weird dreams with a fever, but . . . I dreamed about sex all night. Every situation, every… Read More
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Waking Dream
People ask me if I have vivid dreams or nightmares. Normally, the answer is no. I had a spat of nightmares a few weeks back, but I finally figured out what issue I was working subconsciously and once I dragged it out into the light of day I was able to work the issue rather than have it work me over. My dreams are usually about issues I’m working, or need to, or my spiritual practices. I’d forgotten that one of the side effects to not writing is that my dreams change. The other night I dreamed about fairies, as… Read More
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
What I Really Wanted for my Birthday
My birthday was Friday. I’m not a big one for celebrating birthdays. I don’t even usually take the day off, but this year found me exhausted from the fourth book deadline in a row that had kicked my ass. I needed a day off and it turned out to be my birthday, very serendipitous. People asked me what I wanted for presents, and for the first time I realized that nothing I really, truly wanted could come in a box with bows and wrapping paper. What did I really want as a present?
I wanted some time where I wasn’t… Read More
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