I took a badly needed Day Off a few days ago, and spent it in bed with a book. It was glorious. Also, apparently the focus and pressure of tasks needing to be done is the only thing keeping me awake, because without it I was only good for about half an hour at a time before I dozed off again. Still, glorious.

However, since then I've been feeling ( Read more... )

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First, help promote the con on any social media. Like the Facebook page or join the group. Tweet/retweet. Subscribe to the website. Post about it on your blog, journal, or forums. Pretty much anything that helps get the word out about Narrativity counts!

Then, ( Read more... )

Well, the taxes are done. (Mine, that is, not the convention's.) Yes, I know there's extensions, but I'd have to do them sooner or later anyway, and I am just congenitally incapable of not getting my taxes done by April 15. (I don't know if there's an extension for organizational taxes, but since the one tiny form we have to file has literally ( Read more... )

How is it the middle of April already? When did this happen? (Do not even ask about my taxes.)

So, March's stats, better late than never.

old-mission stories: 609
other original short fiction: 3225
Lightning Strikes Twice = 4852

Total new words in March: 8686

Hot damn! That's way better than I thought I was doing. Which makes me feel a whole lot ( Read more... )

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

It doesn't get much better than Aubrey DeAugustine. Snarky, sneaky, always with a ready line in elegant bullshit and an exquisite nose for trouble, Aubrey is as much an ornament to any scene as he himself would modestly admit to being to any social occasion. He is deeply competent at all the ( Read more... )

I got my first vaccine shot today! (Yes, it was at the location I thought it was. Only took four contacts to confirm that....) It's the Pfizer vaccine. Procedure was pretty straightforward: show up at store, fill out the usual stupid medical forms, wait a very few minutes, get called in, get shot, wait 15 minutes, go free.

Arm's a little sore, ( Read more... )

I may have a vaccine appointment next week. Actually, I definitely do.

Somewhere.

The fact that most vaccine venues only let you sign up online or through apps has become An Issue for me. We've just spent a year in this country discovering that a sizeable swath of the population does not have regular internet access, and that "Just do everything ( Read more... )

There's a certain anthology that opens up around this time every year. I have an unbroken six-year track record of getting rejected by these folks, so when I realized the annual sub window was approaching and I didn't have something suitable on hand, I sat down and wrote a new story specifically for them.

(I've even been fighting myself on the ( Read more... )

19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe 'too often', trope you can’t get enough of?)

I think the phrase "sheer force of will" has turned up in at least three of the four novels I've finished. And likely will again.

Seriously, though, I'm not one of those writers who gets bent ( Read more... )

In follow-up to this, I just realized: OMG, Wile E. Coyote is the patron animal of writers.

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