I haven't been around here much lately, and I've noticed a lot of changes.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I've been mostly at Weeds and Wild Things lately, talking about gardening and other things.  But here's the thing, I don't talk about writing there too much, and I kind of miss that, so here are a few lines from the story I'm working on right ( Read more... )

Sort of a first lines meme, I guess, but only for one thing.  I had this idea suddenly at work today, and I had to write it down.  But it's so outside of my usual style that I'm not sure where I'm going with it, other than that it will be a short story.

The Priestess and the Slug
It is a little known fact that slugs are a type of lesser demon.

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So I need some help.  I have this idea, which is really an ephemeral, less than half-formed thing, for a story.  And it is a story about World War I, which as most of you have probably gathered by now is a war I am completely and utterly fascinated by.  However, fascination does not necessarily mean I'm well-prepared for such a project ( Read more... )

So, here's the thing.  I've started a blog over on wordpress.  I'm using it to practice for writing garden books, so I thought I'd try my hand at garden blogging.  Right now my focus is pretty narrow-- entries are mostly confined to my own garden and my dayjob.  But it does mean I'm going to be posting less frequently here.  I don't have time for ( Read more... )

I've been sitting on this post for the better part of a week, because first I didn't know what to say, and then I didn't know how to say it.  And I was tired, and heartsick, and angry.  And I'm still all of those things, but maybe talking about it will help.  Anyway ( Read more... )

This is a somewhat silly thing to write a post about, which is to say I feel really self-conscious about this.  So here goes.  One of my very most favorite songs is I Had No Right, by Dar Williams.  It is an immensely powerful song and it means a lot to me.

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It means a lot to me-- about how I feel about war, and how I feel about my religion.  And ( Read more... )

I've been writing a lot this week.  Some of this is because I had my writing group on Monday, which really helped me see some things that I was missing in my story.  So I have a scene to expand, and some things to edit out.  And I haven't done that, because I have forward momentum right now, and I don't want to get distracted and lose that.

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It's been an eventful weekend.  I started the weekend Friday night by going for dinner with two of the women from my writing group, which was really nice.  We had excellent food and good conversation, ranging from makeup to writing and movies and books and it was a lot of fun.

Saturday my brother came home from school for spring break, and I had to ( Read more... )

I've gotten a bit farther on On the Wings of Swans, but progress has been slow.  And progress on the second scarflet is kind of at a dead halt, but that's because I do most of my knitting in the morning before work, and things have been somewhat unsettled there of late.  Anyway. Log.

On the Wings of Swans

Words Today: 1,302
Words Total: 10,000
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Mourning Dove gets a name change to On the Wings of Swans.  I have been plodding along on it all week and it's been a struggle, which means something is wrong, I just can't figure out what.  I'll get it sorted eventually.  And so it goes.

On the Wings of Swans

Words Today: 891 
Words Total: 8,148
Research: law enforcement funeral protocol
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