As of tonight, we’re stuck in testing the blogs in their new home. Something’s not working right with the WordPress files. I think I know what the problem is…or rather I hope I do…but we’re still not set up over there, and time is ticking away. I think the problem is that the WordPress theme Read More…
Tag: life beyond writing
Rolling Zeros Again
Over 132,000 words now and misbehaving near the end. The plot threads that should be whipping around each other and forming a terminal shape are instead waving wildly in the breeze. A good part of that is the current political situation, which is sufficiently dire to grab my attention multiple times a day and suggest Read More…
Notice of Change
My hosting service is closing down at the end of March. I need to find a new hosting service, a new registrar, get everything backed up and transferred, ASAP. As most of you know, getting that DNS change thing accomplished takes awhile (or can take awhile) and so there may be a gap in which Read More…
Funny How Time Slips Away….
Seriously? Ten days? Well, Stuff Happened, and doesn’t it always. Into the Fire had been dashing along happily but suddenly planted its feet and refused to move. Part of it was lack of sleep. Part of it was…”I don’t like my beginning. Do it over.” I explained gently and firmly that we do not do Read More…
Writer Self-Indulgence
It is cold, windy, dank (rained a lot yesterday) and I have at hand a mug of hot chocolate, and in my nose the fragrance of baking bread. Yes, I’m baking bread regularly again. I started with two four-loaf batches of white bread (double recipe) and then moved on to my favorite, brown bread made Read More…
Notice of Return
The last of the cleanup (though not all the reorganization) from Thanksgiving has been accomplished, and Author is back on the job. The new book stands at just over 94,000 words now (some days lost to the holiday.) Various components of the feast are already packaged and in the freezer. Other components await deconstruction, division, Read More…
Notice of Absence
Thanksgiving is about to happen again. There’s a table you can’t see behind the people on the right of the picture below. This year both tables will be almost full; I’m expecting 17 or 18. Therefore we will be, from yesterday when it started, preparing for Thanksgiving. Turkeys and ham are in-house now. More groceries Read More…
Not Just Literary Fiction
The morning’s foray onto Twitter included a tweet by Penguin-Random linking to this article, http://www.signature-reads.com/2016/09/this-is-how-literary-fiction-teaches-us-to-be-human/, about how reading fiction increases readers’ understanding of other people. Although I agree that reading fiction from childhood on up does tend to increase understanding and awareness, I don’t agree with this kind of article (it’s not the first such Read More…
Progress Report: Zeroes Roll Over
My target for the week was 60,000 words by Friday night. Instead, I reached 60,000 words today, before noon. Sometimes books want to be written, and this is that kind of book. Or possibly slowing down because of other problems has given my brain a chance to think over where it is, and solve problem Read More…
News: Facebook Page
I gave up on Facebook years ago after several days of struggling to get connected–I knew there was something there with my name on it but could not access it. Thanks to brilliant new website manager Karen Shull, who will be doing most of the posting over there because I don’t need more stress, I Read More…