15 Jun 07
Final reminder: I need your comments on Giant Armors by midnight tonight, if you’re going to send them. Thanks!
14 Jun 07
Strange, really, how I may not blog for days, and usually it’s because very little is happening. My two major accomplishments of the past three days were 1. spreading a truck load of mulch around my house, and 2. installing a new garbage disposal. Not that this is a terrible thing, I suppose. I could […]
10 Jun 07
If you have a copy of my YA novel to review, please send me any comments by this Friday so I’ll have time to incorporate them. Thanks, as usual, for all your thoughts.
9 Jun 07
Finished watching Bubba Ho-Tep today. Surprisingly fantastic film. Yes, it’s cheesy at times—the plot involves the real Elvis, stuck in an old folks’ home, who confronts a 4,000-year-old soul-sucking mummy—but like all really good films, it transcends its concept by really examining its concept. Imagine an Elvis who’s old. Way past his prime. Spends almost […]
8 Jun 07
No posts recently because I’ve been caught by a really nasty illness. I’m talking…well, I won’t share the symptoms in deference to decorum. I seem to be recovering, though. That which does not kill me, etc. (Which always struck me as false. Going into a coma won’t kill you, but it sure won’t make you […]
5 Jun 07
Just returned from the writer’s group, where I received lots of feedback on draft three of Giant Armors. I have a few minor changes to make now, and will incorporate any changes I receive from other readers by mid-June. Felt great. They said that this was a significant improvement, and they look forward to reading […]
3 Jun 07
11:15 P.M. Driving home from the movies. Back country roads. The driver’s side window is cranked all the way down, and the cool country night air tousles my hair. The comforting, sweet back-woods smell of evergreens and a thousand nights of decayed leaves is punctuated by sickly sweet honeysuckle and the acrid twang of skunk. […]
3 Jun 07
11:15 P.M. Driving home from the movies. Back country roads. The driver’s side window is cranked all the way down, and the cool country night air tousles my hair. The comforting, sweet back-woods smell of evergreens and a thousand nights of decayed leaves is punctuated by sickly sweet honeysuckle and the acrid twang of skunk. […]
2 Jun 07
You don’t get credit for the small stuff. Mowing the lawn. Cleaning up. Replying to emails. Balancing your budget. Nobody’s going to come up and thank you for doing the small stuff. I’m thirty years old, and I’ve just realized this. Internalizing it has changed me, for the better. I don’t resent the small stuff. […]