Arch Angel told me that all Word documents make an auto copy called a TMP file (TNP?  TNT?  TMI?  Something like that.) and most likely, the one for my manuscript is corrupt.  He said somebody needs to go in, delete the corrupt TMP file (or whatever it's called) and then de-frag my hard drive ( Read more... )

Setting: standing in front of the Great Wall of China, slamming my head into it.  Repeatedly ( Read more... )

Setting: "Old friends...sit on the park bench like bookends ( Read more... )

Setting: in my local bookstore, in the fantasy section, gazing at a book on the shelf with my name emblazoned on the spine ( Read more... )

Setting: passed out in a muddy rhubarb patch, rubbing my tummy and moaning in ecstasy ( Read more... )

A little over a year ago, I had the great pleasure of hearing Maya Angelou speak at the Paramount Theater in Seattle.  She only spoke for a little under an hour, but it was a rare experience, I'd go so far as to say nearly spiritual.  I wrote the following poem in the parking lot after the show ( Read more... )

Setting: I don't know but there's no getting to sleep there, either.

Well, I hadn't intended this to be my first LJ entry after my vacation, but what are you gonna do?  I spent two glorious long weeks in Kaua'i, completely unplugged, and enjoyed every sun-soaked minute of it.  I wrote on my story in an old composition note book (so old it started ( Read more... )

Setting: walking down a regular suburban street, kicking a roll of parchment ahead of me as I go, which just keeps unraveling and unraveling and unraveling and unraveling ( Read more... )

Setting: seated sipping cocoa on the wrap-around porch of a Victorian house - complete with brilliant shingle siding and ornate gingerbread trim - which stands alone on the edge of an enchanted tall mountain cliff, over-looking an impossible view of the entire western half of Washington State ( Read more... )

Setting: at the foot of a long, narrow banquet table of carved mahogany, a perfect line of blank sheets of white standard-sized printer paper laid down its center with one inch between each sheet ( Read more... )