38,000+ on the novel. I don't think I will make it to the 50,000 word line ( Read more... )

105 Pages ( Read more... )

Found a lovely poem by one of my favourite poets -- May Sarton -- today. I posted it on a friend's journal. He is mourning a loss. I wish I had read this poem when my mom died. I have great respect for people who can bravely choose death when the time comes ( Read more... )

32 pages!
Had fun writing a bloody fight scene today. Mua ha ha ha.
The inner me is not nearly as mild as the outer me appears.

It takes a lot of courage to do creative work. I feel intimidated by ghosts of greatness ( Read more... )

Oh! I am having fun with the national novel writing month project. I am a little under the daily quota each day but I think that's ok. Each night I go to sleep thinking I won;t have anything to say the next day but a miracle happens and something comes up ( Read more... )

OK. I have begun the novel but as I wrote I discovered that the story could be told rather quickly -- as in it was looking more like a short story than a novel. So I asked the internet why this might be so ( Read more... )

As a way to distract myself from actually working on the NaNoMo project I will post here instead ( Read more... )

Jackie Skaay is a Metis girl living on the west coast of Canada who hears voices and sees things others cannot see. She isn't crazy ... she just tends towards liminality. An ad in the local fringe newspaper advertises a reward for information leading to the arrest of a notorious 'vampire' murderer. One of her informants, a grumpy crow, leads her to ( Read more... )

One of the questions we have been taught to ask a client is: do you hear voices? The question is supposed to help us identify a possible psychosis when making a differential diagnosis ( Read more... )