Tag: life in general

  • October 2019 IWSG

    October 2 question – It’s been said that the benefits of becoming a writer who does not read is that all your ideas are new and original. Everything you do is an extension of yourself, instead of a mixture of you and another author. On the other hand, how can you expect other people to…

  • Time Enough?

    How does one make time? Is there a spell for that? Do you pray to Chronos while sacrificing a rubber chicken to the black hole at the center of our galaxy? A recipe, maybe? Blend 2 cups anti-matter, 5 fairy wings with the tongue of a ladybug, then cook for 8 plank times on high?…

  • Pain and Stress, Vol. 1

    I’d had it. I’d lost my damn mind. My children each have their own rooms. My husband has a 12×20 cave that barely holds all of his stuff. He also has a 2×6 table and associated space in the front room for his small medical things because there’s no room in his Superfund site to…

  • Summer Break

    Summer Break is here, which means that my little monkeys are at home. All the time. We’re not that far in and it’s already driving me nuts. This is the last summer for the super-cheap local Day-Camp held by the community center, starting in June and running through July. Next summer, they will be too…

  • No More Battery Juice

    I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to go and what I needed…

  • A Death Rattle

    Barnes and Noble has begun harassing me at least once a week with email promos to come in and buy stuff. This has been going on since January, although they’ve had my email for something like 2-3 years, now. I only received an occasional email once every few months from them before, but now it’s…