Monthly Archives: January 2009

reflections on a glass tabletop

Our coffee table is just a clear glass top on a wire-y frame, and I am currently looking at the muted reflections of an empty water glass, my spectacles, and a little ring of clear plastic from something-or-other. The layering of clear-and-colorless objects is interesting and I find myself staring at it meditatively, though as [...]

Good morning and happy Saturday!

I’m sleepy, and Battlestar Galactica is about to come on. Here’s your chapter! I hope you enjoy it half as much as I’ll enjoy the new episode of BSG. ( “Enjoy,” here, is frequently defined as “be tormented and enraged by.” I don’t mean to inflict that kind of enjoyment on you. Much. Yet.)

What? No Wednesday update?

Well kids, I’ve looked over the rest of my story and broken it into appropriate-sized chapters. And from the way things are looking, it’ll definitely be better to do one longer chapter a week than two shorter ones, as I’ve been doing. I’m still glad I started out the way I did; I feel like [...]

Saturday’s chapter… well, it’s still Saturday at least

So noon was a bit of a stretch. Here it is, though. Enjoy!
My big project for this weekend is to assess how many chapters I have drafted, and hence how much time I have to draft the next book. I may have to go down to once-a-week publication after January. I’m finding I have plenty [...]

Technical difficulties nearly resolved!

Actually, they’re completely resolved. Now it’s the business of the user (that would be me) to get a handle on the resolution. I’ve re-posted all the chapters of the story so far, as well as the posts I wrote through NaNo and the early part of December. I omitted all the posts that were basically just [...]

December posts

Originally posted on 2008-12-01:
Yes kids, I won Nanowrimo, complete with coveted purple “winner” bar. Huzzah! Not only that, but all four of my writing buddies won as well! Good job guys! Three cheers to us all!
Now for the frenetic fun of editing everything to publishable form. I’m not going to try [...]

November posts

Originally posted on 2008-11-01:
I didn’t, in fact, get off the mark at midnight last night. Compassion for my fellow-workers (and my perpetually deflated pocketbook) kept me at work three hours late, and I wasn’t about to try writing: by eleven my brain was operating enough to watch A Bit of Fry [...]

October posts

Originally posted on 2008-10-19:
Well, I have two weeks to get this blog up and running before NaNo starts. This post will probably go the way of the default initial post, but at least it’s a placeholder I wrote. Should you stumble upon this page in the meantime, Welcome! Check back as [...]

Do not fret, do not fear

Heya… so as you may have noticed, the site has been experiencing some “technical difficulties.” The problem’s been solved, now all I have to do is restore all the old content and whatnot. That will be Wednesday’s project. Expect everything to be back to normal, and a new chapter (or two, depending on how long [...]