Archive for October, 2006

Know what's worse than realising there' s a really big problem with your novel when you're more than 20,000 words into it and you need to go back to the start and tear things apart completely? Not a whole hell of a lot, really. I was standing in the kitchen about an ...
Baltimore City Paper Short Fiction Contest. I've just submitted my entry.
One side of my nose is fine. The other is plugged. My head hurts and I'm tired and I swear I'm running a fever, although there's nothing that proves it (ie: I can't find the thermometer, and it never says I have a fever anyhow, the filthy, lying thing. But ...
The things I do instead of writing: Organize my bookmarks. Watch episodes of "House, MD". Read books. Stare at the walls. This does not bode well for NaNoWriMo.
Me: You're going to leave me for someone that can dance, aren't you. Kitti: Well it's natural selection. Those who can dance will fare better than those who can't! It's based on historical fact. Kevin Bacon! Madonna! Me: Ewan McGregor. Kitti: Uma Thurman! Me: Michael Flatley. LORD of the dance. Kitti: Baryshnikov. ...
Some database trouble on the host side of things caused a blip. I know you were all lost without me. There thereTM. It'll be okay. "Smith" was cancelled after just three episodes. I blame CBS for trying to run it against "Law & Order: SVU". Maybe they'll bring it ...