Uncategorized
…or not.
20 minutes before I need to leave was not a good time to start installing a new layout. So here’s a pretty new layout to tide us all over until I install my NEW new layout.
Uncategorized
Changing Template
I’m working on changing my template, so if you visit my journal page, there will likely be wonkiness and/or ugliness. Possibly until tomorrow, even.
Uncategorized
Because I’m not a real writer if I don’t risk rejection.
Mamie’s Pie Shop: locked, tweaked, and fired off to an e-zine. One that actually pays, at that. Their guidelines say that they reject within a week, and if it takes longer than that to hear from them that that’s generally good news. So who wants to start a pool on Read more…
Uncategorized
I have to confess, I don’t listen much to NPR, and so I’m really only familiar with Ira Glass through his fans throughout the Kingdom of Blog. But between this and his Buffy advice, I think I’m kinda crushing on the guy a little. I might have to start downloading his radio show.
Uncategorized
Why I’m So Lame
Marjorie Liu has a post on “Writer’s Inhibition” that, I think, is right on the money. This is exactly what I suffer from, and what usually keeps me from writing when I have the time to do it. It’s not block, exactly. I know what needs to happen next, usually. Read more…
Uncategorized
Open Source Idea
I’m going to borrow a page from and post an idea I had that I don’t have time to follow through on, at least not for a very long time. I would post it under a creative commons license, but since you can’t really copyright an idea anyway, that seems Read more…
Uncategorized
It’s a working vacation, apparently.
I’m on vacation the rest of this week, so there won’t be any updates here, unless something writing-related happens that is so amazing or tragic that I must wade through dial-up molasses to post it, which is pretty doubtful. Originally, we were supposed to go camping this week, and then Read more…
Uncategorized
WDBF?
Note: I pounded out the following last night after a glass and a half of wine and in the middle of a writing frenzy, all while being distractingly nosed by my cat. I tried to edit it for coherency. This interview with Ira Glass, of NPR’s This American Life, contains Read more…