Monday, September 28, 2009
Finding Your Own Pace as a Writer
There is a natural flow to every book. There’s even a natural flow to how most writers work. I know writers that take six months off between books. One writer finishes a book then goes back to college to get a new degree or course, and then goes back to writing. For most of us, we finish a book and take a few weeks off, maybe a month, or two, or we work on other projects while the next series book percolates in our heads.
Some writers like to write at night. Some do it because that’s the only… Read More
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Glee and Sex Education in my High School
Favorite show that we Tivo-ed this week: Glee. This episode is called "Preggers" which is sort of self explanatory, and it does have a surprise pregnancy, but the parts of the show that made it my favorite for the week are about the other theme of the show. Curt/Kurt who is our very gay teenage boy main character gets a little too much help from one of his friends and ends up having to figure out how to really be the kicker for the football team so his dad can come to a game. It seems typical sitcom fodder, but… Read More
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Working with Your Muse
What is a muse? What is your personal muse? Goddesses? Fairies? A part of your own brain that only seems to have a life of its own? Is the muse simply inspriation? I’ll let you decide for yourself on that part of it, but tonight I’ll write about things I do to coax my muse, or maybe to coax me. I’ve had the muse hot and bothered when I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open, so my muse and I take turns coercing each other.
My muse runs on caffeine, or at least hot liquids. When… Read More
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Happy Mabon
Happy Mabon everyone! It’s Autumn equinox with day and night of equal length. From this point on the nights will grow longer until on Winter Solstice we will have the longest night of the year. But today we all get as much sunshine as darkness. It is a harvest festival primarily. It’s a chance to think about what you’ve harvested so far this year. We have a tradition that we do either at Lammas which is in early August and is supposed to celebrate the first harvest, or here at Mabon near the end of the growing year. We’ve gone… Read More
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Keeping the Inches Off
We put up pictures of dinner last night, but I realized we may have left you all with a false understanding of how much we ate. So here’s a picture of lunch to show you that only half the pork chop and stuffing was eaten last night. One slice of tomato from the heirloom salad. Some roasted veggies. Jon had more of those so he only did one piece of bruchetta, and I did less veggies, but did two pieces of the veggies bruchetta. The real indulgence was the homemade carmel sauce from Whole Foods. They make it only during… Read More
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Never Give In
Today was a day when the muse was not in my head, or my heart. It was like the 14 pages from yesterday had emptied me out. I was vaguely angry, and disgruntled. I didn’t wanna work today. I was damn near pouting.
But I sat my butt in my chair, at my desk, with my keyboard and I took my own advice. I wrote all the reasons I could not possibly write today. I was tired. I was uninspired. My muse and I were grumpy. I didn’t feel well. The whining went on for a paragraph, then something I… Read More
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Upcoming Appearence
Up coming appearance: SciFest 2009 at the St. Louis Science Center. October 10th, 8 - 10 PM in the Exploradome. Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased in advance at www.scifeststl.org.
Just so no one will complain that they didn’t know in time to get tickets. Here’s the information again. So, you have now been warned. Come hear me talk, and you can ask questions in person. Bear in mind that this will be one of the very few public appearances this year. I’ll be talking about the research I did for SKIN TRADE, and other books. You get… Read More
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