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Why I Quit My Job
I will be doing more of this. As of Friday May 11th, I am officially, and happily, unemployed. The United States economy is in a bad place right now. People are struggling to find jobs, struggling to...
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Wordle my World
In preparation for NaNoWriMo I’ve been reading a series of blog posts Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalastier wrote a few years ago, and reposted last year all neatly compiled. A lot of it is stuff I...
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The Next Big Thing
My first blog meme! Last week author Folly Blaine tagged me for The Next Big Thing, a promotional meme that’s been making the rounds lately. Basically a set of questions where authors can talk about,...
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Buying Beautiful Rugs: When Advice Starts Making Sense
Not my cat Five months ago Mr. Eliza and I moved into a new house. We found a really cute 1918 Craftsman style home, 2 bedrooms, 2 stories, and an addition jutting out from the side of the house....
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Busy! Work! Busywork!
Let’s just say this is for Memorial Day. From Me2 (Me Too) Busy! I’ve been busy. Except, it doesn’t really feel like being busy. I think, more, id that I’ve been doing a lot of things that are...
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… mysterious as a cat
Last weekend Mr. Eliza and I took our cats, Pumpkin and Pi, on a roadtrip down south to visit some long-neglected relatives. Aside from the car ride up to our house from the shelter we where we adopted...
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The Unexpected Sequel
Photo from Jessica Feis Rare Cultivation, Take Two, is finished! Actually, it’s been done for a couple weeks now. Usually when I finish a big project, I post here. It’s pretty much the only time I can...
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Emerald City Writer’s Conference and the courage to start over (and kittens)
Photo by Sean Dreilinger Wednesday of last week I got to work and noticed a pain in my throat. Every time I swallowed, it hurt, heralding the onslaught of a sickness that has been going around my...
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What I’ve Learned About Using Scenes and Sequels
One of the panels I went to at ECWC was about writing Scenes and Sequels, presented by Ann Charles, Jacquie Rogers and Wendy Delaney. These were terms I’d heard before from reading Jim Butcher’s old...
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Sequels are hard, yo!
NaNoWriMo. Another November over (by quite a bit, I realize). This was my hardest NaNo yet. Almost from page one I started having serious doubts about the direction of this particular novel–and the...
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