Wild
I have but three words for you. The. Wilder. Life.Bought Wendy McClure's new book for the nook. Here it is, all pretty and electronic.There's a bonnet, with strings flying in [...]
Me & Oprah & lotsabooks
I guess I'm allowed to talk about this by now: Tomorrow, on the Oprah Winfrey Show, several former cast members of Saturday Night Live will reunite.Somewhere in the audience, me.Oprah [...]
Photo essay: I also have a cat
Meet: Miss Molly, otherwise known as "Pants."She's currently breaking some rules that were set specifically for her. Also, she doesn't like humans.
Writer math be damned.
So I read the whole draft-in-progress of The Black Hour in order to get back into it, and now I'm 102 words SHORT of where I started.Hey, if I saw [...]
Life’s little mysteries
I like mysteries. I think we've established that. But what you may not know is that I like mysteries in real life, too—or at least I seem to.I went out [...]
Writer math. Others, look away.
Now that work has returned to (still rather busy but) normal, my hope is to begin writing again.And by that, I mean take back writing by the throat.What I'd really [...]
Detail
I though this article from Gotham on significant detail did a pretty good job of being explicit and giving good examples.
Shaped like a humidifier, actually
Sore throat. Bought a humidifier for my bedside table today. Sadly, it is not shaped like a bear or a dragon.
My triumphant return to Dover, Indiana
To follow up on my last post, I didn't get any reading time that Sunday, as I'd planned.No. No, I had to sort through piles of receipts looking for writing [...]
Light at the end of the tunnel
I think I've finally got down what I'm going to say at the event at my high school. Good thing, since it's a week from today. After that's over, I'll [...]