Archived Posts from: October, 2005

Goodbye, DST. Hello, zzzzz…

Filed in: blog   
No Comments

This is probably the one day of the year that anyone could ever accuse me of being a morning person. I went to bed early last night (11pm), and 6.5 hours later, I woke up at 4:30! Amazed. Of course, I cheated and went back to bed a couple of hours later and snoozed for [...]

The Value of Rejection

Filed in: blog   
No Comments

Today I received another rejection. Most of the time, I’m pretty cool with those. I’m a writer; these come with the territory. I’ve gotten quite a few over the years, with enough acceptances to keep me encouraged and generally happy with the way my career is going.
Just not happy enough.
The truth is, my writing career [...]

Writing Fodder

Filed in: blog   
1 Comment

As usual, the trip to Alabama provided serious grist for the mill, especially for the Daisy Doe book. An abandoned business district that’s beginning to turn East Village-ish, a flea market that was more like prowling through an old barnyard than someone’s suburban garage (including the need to watch where you stepped), and grizzled old [...]

Writing Sick

Filed in: blog   
1 Comment

Sick. Hacking, nasty, curl-up-and-moan sick. And I hate it.
I’ve always loathed being ill, mostly because I can’t do the things I want to do. Someone once told me this was my latent control freak rearing her ugly little red head, but I don’t care. While, yes, it can be a relief to roll over in [...]

On the Fulcrum

Filed in: blog   
1 Comment

Family will take precedent over work this weekend, as it should. My brother is around, and since I get to see him only once or twice a year, he’ll have my full attention from Friday night until Sunday evening. No blogging. I am going to have the AlphaSmart attached to my hip, so any time [...]

One Day at a Time

Filed in: blog   
2 Comments

Crazy days. On Friday, the kidling became ill, so my time shifted to the home front, and not much about work. She’s not serious, just a cold, but it consumes a lot of my other thoughts, and I didn’t feel much like blogging. I did work some, mostly on the next novel…working title A Picture [...]

The Need to Write

Filed in: blog   
No Comments

I like my new job, but it comes with a few drawbacks, like far less time to write. After two months, the creative drive in me is starting to writhe in the back of my head like a quivering beast. I have to unleash it or it makes me a tad nuts.
Okay, more than a [...]

Balancing Act

Filed in: blog   
No Comments

One of the frustrations of any writer with a full-time job is balance. How do you keep the money-job from taking over your creativity until your writing begins to pay the bills. When I was freelancing, that was easy; I never accepted enough editorial work that the writing took a back seat. Now I feel [...]

Changes

Filed in: blog   
2 Comments

Who was it that said the only constant in the universe is change?
For anyone who hasn’t heard, I’m no longer strictly a freelancer. I’ve gone corporate again, taking a position as senior editor for World Publishing. It’s an intriguing process, the transition from working at home to going in almost every day. The man who [...]