Archived Posts from: October, 2005

Goodbye, DST. Hello, zzzzz…

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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

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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 Fodder

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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

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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 [...]

On the Fulcrum

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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

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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

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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 [...]

Balancing Act

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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

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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 [...]