Progress on NHI has been disappointingly slow. I thought about taking a week off to focus on it, but I knew what would happen: I’d slack off on Monday thinking that I had plenty of time. Tuesday, too. Something would come up on Wednesday, and then Thursday is so close to the end of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'All About Me'
15 pages in one day? Sure!
June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: All About Me · NHI · Writing
The Great Purge
April 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments
I am in the middle of a great purge of books. It began late last year when I realized I couldn’t organize my library because there was no space to move anything. I decided to get rid of roleplaying game books I knew I would never use again. They filled two large boxes but their [...]
Tags: All About Me · Books
Escaping the box
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Last week, a part on my notebook computer broke. The machine still runs but I can’t cart it around anymore. It’s now stationary in my library and I’m online less frequently as a result. It’s inconvenient to trot to the back of the house. When it was right there, it was easy to check email [...]
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Sleuthfest recap
March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
I’ve heard that you can tell how good a party was by how long it takes to recover from it. The same thing can be said about writers’ conferences. By that measure, this year’s Sleuthfest was a tremendous success, because I’ve been home for three days and I’m still not fully caught up on my [...]
Tags: All About Me · Sweetie · Writing
The game as story
February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
That was a heck of a game last night. I didn’t really care who would win, and I haven’t followed football in years, so I hadn’t intended to do more than turn it on for background noise. At first, I thought it was going to be another dull blowout, but once New Orleans came back [...]
Tags: All About Me · TV · Writing