Getting rid of mail

The post office has been talking about going to 5 days of mail service a week.  I think strausmouse wrote about this not too long ago.  As a writer, I live for the mail.  It’s an inherited thing.  Most rejection slips come through snail mail, but most acceptances these day (in my experience) come through [...]

Monday writing

Just completed 600 words on the March story–the second scene.  I’ve got mixed feelings about it. The story isn’t moving as quickly as I’d like it to.  Normally, I’d go back and rework things at this point, but I think it’s important for me to get the first draft done and rework from there.  Otherwise [...]

A story-a-month

I haven’t been doing as well as I’d like on the story-a-month front, but I hope to get back to it this evening.  I’d like to get at least one scene a day done on the “March” story, and have the first draft done in the next twelve days or so.  I like this story [...]

Sunday wrap-up

A mostly lazy day.  I sat out on the porch, enjoying the weather, and getting through about 70 pages of I. Asimov today.  I had planned to get some writing done, but it got bumped.  Kelly and I went for a walk late this afternoon and it was so pleasant out, I wanted to keep [...]

Cosmos

This might be hard to believe, but while I have read every book that Carl Sagan has written, I have never seen a single episode of his famous science series, Cosmos.  Until last night, that is.  I remember seeing some posts regarding the fact that the Cosmos series was available on Hulu, and last night, [...]

Lazy day… with dinner

Today was a lazy day for me.  I slept in late, trying to catch up on sleep that I’ve missed these last several weeks.  Having slept in late, I then lazed around much of the afternoon, until around 3 pm when Kelly and I headed out to do grocery shopping. We were supposed to go [...]

Shortest birthday ever

I flew back from L.A. today and since I was traveling from West to East on my birthday, crossing three time zones, it made for my shortest birthday ever, 21 hours.  I got into Dulles a little early and then we hit traffic on the way home, but I finally got home around 6:30 pm [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Story in Apex Magazine

I am pleased to announce that my story, “Hindsight, in Neon,” will be appearing in the April 2009 issue of Apex Magazine. This issue is guested edited by Michael A. Burstein, author of I Remember the Future. This marks my second story sale and I am very excited about this one. The issue should be [...]

Back to the future

Yes, today is my birthday, 37 trips around the sun.  Or as my grandpa would say, 37 “years of age.”  I was busy in the work retreat all week so I am a little behind on these entries.  I hope to catch up soon, so plan to see some back-dated entries for the days that [...]

What a great dinner!

After a very long day of travel and work, I met my friend Neil for dinner.  He picked me up at my hotel and we headed to Ocean Avenue Seafood.  Neil and I went to junior high school together, but haven’t seen each other, or had any contact in nearly 22 years.  We got back [...]

Off to Santa Monica

I’m heading off to Santa Monica shortly.  I’ll be there through Thursday, and then head home on Friday, which is also my birthday.  In a continuing string of coincidences, this is the third time in a row that I’ve flown the day after some kind of major plane crash.  I flew a day after the [...]

Prep day

Up around 8 am.  Today was “prep day”.  I spent a lot of time working on a presentation for the retreat next week today.  I had to run into the office this morning to get some additional books for some references.  I did get some reading in this morning, but not a whole lot.  The [...]

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