There was no mail yesterday thanks to the federal holiday. Last night there was an ice storm which kept us home from work, and all day long I’ve been worrying that the mail would not arrive. But the mail truck just drove up and the mailman delivered the one package I’ve been waiting for in…
This afternoon I finished my read through of Part 1 of my NaNoWriMo novel. The piece was 35,500 words long. I read through it on my Kindle and made more than 165 notes as I worked through it. One of the most valuable things I’ve got from the writers groups to which I belong is…
My obliviousness to the news apparently runs to the weather as well. Kelly mentioned something about inclement weather last night, but I didn’t think much of it. When I went to bed last night, I could hear the ice on the windows. But I got up this morning, showered, and got ready for work. I…
I’ve been using Evernote for closed to 2 months now and I have been very impressed with it. I originally started to use it as part of my desire to go paperless at home (I’d already done so, more or less, in the day job). What I have found is that it is not only…
Let’s play the game “can Jamie really do what he says he’ll do?” By bedtime Sunday, then: Write the first half (~8,000 words) of “Rescue” Read and critique two first chapters of novels for the Arlington Writers Group Start on my vacation in the Golden Age of Science Fiction Write that blog post on Evernote…
My evolution of story draft reading has come a long way in the last year. A year ago, I’d print out my first drafts, mark them up in red ink and then head into my second draft. Then I tried reading the draft within Scrivener and that worked pretty well, too, but it was a…
Upon my office desk are currently stacked in various piles, 30 issues of Astounding ranging from September 1939 through December 1950. But the one of which I am in desperate need has not yet arrived, and I am just about shaking in anticipation. The July and August 1939 issues were among the first that I…
Someone asked today that given my full time job, and the fact that I am a full time dad, how did I find the time to make 3 blog posts in a single day and when do I get my real writing done. The question demands a better answer than I gave in the comments…
(…Climbs onto soapbox…) I have been so busy with other stuff that newsworthy items have almost gone completely by the board. I didn’t learn of the events in Arizona, for instance, until a day after they happened. I had no idea the President made a speech the other night until I saw someone mention it…
According to my calendar, there is nothing on the books for this weekend, which means I’ll be attempting to turn my attention to one thing: Working on the new novelette, “Rescue”. Tune in Sunday night to see how I did.