Writing lessons and the writing life
A friend sent me this:
Obama’s Loss Traced To Patrice S.
I laughed. But I swear I’m going to be a nervous wreck up to and including next Tuesday. Thank God for World Fantasy Con.
At least I have last-minute packing and such to keep me busy. Also a very special craft project about which I can give no [...]
Saturday I was at the funeral for a coworker, and I was blindsided by the emotional onslaught. I had worked fairly closely with this woman a few years earlier, but we had both gone onto different positions within the company, and our paths crossed less and less. I knew she was battling cancer; and I [...]
This just in: a new review of Gordath Wood from All About Romance. Here’s an excerpt:
The book truly excels when the focus is on Kate. Kate has led a sheltered life and watching her grow in skill and confidence among the people of the new realm in which she finds herself makes for an interesting [...]
World Fantasy Con is coming up next week. They should have a finalized schedule early next week but so far it looks like I am reading at 2 pm on Friday. I am psyched! According to the prelim schedule I am sharing a reading time slot with Dennis L. McKiernan, who has one of the [...]
Psst…Austinites. If you haven’t voted early yet, consider this to be a good time. For people in my ‘hood, the closest early voting spot is the Shriner’s building across from Sun Harvest. They have the little go-karts parked out front and everything.
Fast and easy, there was a crowd but it moved very quickly, and there [...]
More than 300 million US citizens are paying around $700 billion to jumpstart the economy. And after the first $250 billion was doled out to eight top banks, the banks were admonished to spend the money, not just hoard it. That, after all, was the point. Free up the credit markets! Loosen the worldwide financial [...]
Saturday we spent the day on a chartered bus tour of four of the Texas Hill Country’s wineries, and it couldn’t have been a better day for it despite starting off at the ungodly hour of 3:30 am (not the bus tour itself ; I’ll explain that later). Crisp, cool weather, bright sun, and a deep blue [...]
I finished Zoe’s Tale a few weeks ago, and really liked it. John Scalzi got the character of a teenage girl right, even if there were a few points where it was like he was channeling Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody. But even the smartassery wasn’t that bad and Zoe and her friends were engaging and [...]
Let’s just make one thing clear: under John McCain’s health care plan, you can kiss your health care insurance coverage good-bye. As soon as employers can discontinue providing health care benefits they will. As soon as people have to go buy health care on their own, insurance companies will cherry pick the healthy and leave [...]
I knew I was in trouble when halfway through the recipe I saw the state of my kitchen. Beet juice was splattered everywhere and the sauted apples in their bowl were precariously close to falling off a counter crowded with cutting board, strainers, and food processor attachments.
No recipe was worth this.
I got the recipe from [...]
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