Saturday, June 30, 2007
Balancing the plot
Eighteen pages today. It reads well but I'm unsure about it. The book is oddly structured. On one hand it is Jason's book and we're going home to see where he grew up and his old friends. But it's also a mystery, and I'm trying to balance the old home week with the mystery. I'm left today wondering if I've strayed down memory lane too much, or just about right. Jon's volunteered to read it and see what he thinks, and we may do that, or I may just push through. I know there is only about another short… Read More
Posted by LKH on 06/30 at 03:17 PM
Silence
Saturday morning, everyone else still up stairs. This is like my only hour of no one but me all week. Funny, I spent most of my life very isolated just me and my grandmother. When we went back to visit once when Trinity was small she turned to me after an hour and said, "It's so quiet, and there's nothing to do." I said two things, "Welcome to my childhood." And something she'd heard before, "Do you have an imagination?" "Yes." "Then use it. If you have an imagination you can never be bored." It's always worked for me.… Read More
Posted by LKH on 06/30 at 05:37 AM
Friday, June 29, 2007
miscelanious
Fourteen pages for the day on the new book. The mystery deepens. Anita's getting to see Jason meet up with some good friends from high school. People who knew Jason when. I'm waiting for an interview to phone, I won't say who, or where, until I know when it will run, so you guys don't ask Darla and the mods when it will be out, because they won't know. I'm glad you guys are enjoying the video from THE HARLEQUIN signing at the Science Center. Jon and all of us here are learning lots about doing video for the… Read More
Posted by LKH on 06/29 at 11:26 AM
Thursday, June 28, 2007
We’re number 5
In all the spider invasion stuff I sort of forgot that THE HARLEQUIN is number five on the New York Times list. Two weeks in the top five with a hardback with the summer line up at it's toughest is pretty damn good. The fact that it slipped my mind to blog about it says just how much the whole creepie-crawlie situation is preying on my mind. I'm trying to be big and brave, but apparently my subconscious is not fooled. So, two weeks in the top five, very cool. I've finished eight pages on the new book. Notice… Read More
Posted by LKH on 06/28 at 08:37 AM
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Darla and the spider day 2
Darla and the spider day 2 Still not sure what kind of spider it was. Without my glasses I couldn't see it well enough to tell. And one reason I may be having no problems is I think it was on the cable and when I felt the sting I jerked my hand back before it got me good. I want to say thanks for all the kind thoughts and prayers! And all the remedies! But looking around I did find that reaction can vary and that there is more than one type of recluse spider around. So no… Read More
Posted by Administrator on 06/27 at 01:29 PM
Note From Darla
I am fine. No, the hospital wouldn't look in the containter. Watching the nurse slam the tupperware container when I told her it was still alive was rather amusing. Hey, I needed the laugh at that point. They weren't happy I brought it with me alive either. But no matter the doctor says the treatment is the same irregardless of the spider, though some others have told me different. And that my immediately washing it with hot water and soap was perfect thing to do. The swelling has gone down and it looks more like a mosquito bite than… Read More
Posted by Administrator on 06/27 at 01:04 PM
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Find your happy place
One of the things I'm most often asked is how do I keep the productivity and the quality of the ideas so constant. Well, I thought today was a good day to show how you work through a bad day. If you've read the first two blogs of today you know the spider crisis has upped it's anty. I also had allergy shots today; three shots every time I hit the door. Not my favorite thing. Then I had a second appointment in the early afternoon. My schedule was in tatters. But the Jason book is going really well,… Read More
Posted by LKH on 06/26 at 03:22 PM