So it takes 18 days to get over a cough. File this under Something I Should Have Known. Of course, the thing I think is most interesting is the piece about how the use of antibiotics in these cases tend to support people in their misguided perception that they helped–despite the fact that they are […]
Read More ...Sucked & Didn’t Suck
Three things that sucked this morning: Waking up at 4:30 to see the temperature outside was 9F, then finding it was 7F two hours later. Dear World, You’re going in the wrong damned direction, okay? Cat puke on carpet. I assume it was an editorial comment on our decision to leave her behind for five […]
Read More ...The ConFusion Bounce
Okay, so ConFusion was hella-fun. I can tell when a convention has worked for me when I find myself just wanting to write forever after I get back. That’s certainly the case tonight. It took us pretty much all day to drive back, so I’m brain-dead tired, and busy doing some basic clean-up and latching […]
Read More ...An Unexpected Surprise
I sat down this morning to do some writing, and in a somewhat random occurrence I found myself opening an old file that I had stored in my “stories started” folder. I don’t know how anyone else works, but this is a folder that is jammed full of things I’ve started, then grew tired of […]
Read More ...Welcome to Hectic City
Holy Cows, has January been hectic. I mean, fifteen days have absolutely flown past. I’m working the normal 9-10 hours a day, reading tons of short stuff, and getting to the gym occasionally. I’ve easily topped my 20K steps a day goal as an average. I took a full day and pulled off a surprise […]
Read More ...Three Good things about today
1) “Finished” the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on for the last week or so. I think it’s going to be good before it’s all said and done. 2) Another 20,000+ step day. I’ve been over 20K every day but one this year, and averaging probably 24K or so. 3) Cards […]
Read More ...Writing Romance Like Myke
Myke Cole, who used to wander by my pages back in the day before he became a big wig author [grin], just posted about an exercise he ran where he wrote a romance scene and submitted it to a contest wherein readers were asked to guess the gender of the writer. Myke writes hard, military […]
Read More ...The Latest Big Lie
So word comes now that All-American boy, Tour de France icon, and cancer survivor is now considering whether to admit to doping. This is, of course, pretty much akin to a husband thinking about possibly admitting to an affair–sometime after the judge signs off on the divorce papers. So, after years and years of such […]
Read More ...Wherein the Dominoes Fall Into Place
I’ve been working on a short story for the past several days with only limited success. I liked the start and the characters were there, but the story wasn’t crisp for me. So I found myself spending lots of time going back over what I had already written, starting over, mushing the story one way […]
Read More ...Immortal ConFusion Schedule
A few days back I slipped this news into another post, but here it is in a place of its own–if you’re in the Detroit area the weekend of January 18-20th you can find me (and a whole bunch of better-known folk) at Immortal ConFusion. Should be great fun. Should be even more fun because […]
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