Archive for August, 2008
Work hours
This year, I’ve been having a lot of “Doh!” moments. One of them was realizing that the alchemical correspondences in my fantasy series had a HUGE flaw in the way I’d aligned the elements of Air and Spirit. I’ve had to rearrange the order of the books, which meant putting a story that’s only a [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Writing.
Comments: 8
Quote of the year
Of the decade, even. While reading an excellent article on why a writer needs an agent, I ran across this quote:
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Ain’t THAT the truth. I could come up with enough examples from both my careers to fill a hundred blog posts. But I won’t. :-)
Posted: August 16th, 2008 under Publishing Industry, Writing.
Comments: 4
This swimming thing
Ever since we opened the pool in mid-May, we’ve been swimming anywhere from five to seven days a week — even in the rain! Today, we had rain AND fog, but there we were, swimming away. As long as the thunder only occurs every ten minutes or so, we’ll still keep going.
Why?
Frankly, I think we’re [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Apropos of Nothing.
Comments: 2
My boyfriend
Okay, so he’s the equivalent of 40-something years older than I am, but wow. I totally have a crush on this guy, even though he has a weird habit of chewing the corners off my books!
Posted: August 11th, 2008 under Animals.
Comments: 4
WordPress landmines
You’d think a person with more than twenty years’ experience in the computer biz wouldn’t be foolish enough to download and install applications from untrusted sources, but sometimes even those who ought to know better get distracted by shiny, pretty graphics. Oh, the humiliation. :-)
I’ve been working on my pseudonyms’ web sites lately to get [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Tech.
Comments: 2