I spent all of last weekend cleaning. And when I say cleaning, I mean I removed 25 13-gallon white kitchen garbage bags from my one-bedroom apartment, and that doesn’t even count the actual bedroom, which I use for storage. My apartment went from looking like ground zero of a tornado to a clean, austere living [...]
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
It seemed so simple, at the time. Let’s hop into the wayback machine and go back to just before Halloween, 2007.
I was in a funk, for several reasons. Part of it, I’m chagrined to say, was about a girl. Part of it was out of whack levels of serotonin and dopamine in by brain. And [...]
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Depression sucks. I know, keen grasp of the obvious. But really, it sucks monkeys. On crack.
My brain chemistry isn’t close to right yet, but I’m going to get there. And part of that process is going to be blogging more. Not every day, and I don’t believe all that many people will even notice by [...]
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
It’s spooky how easily writers are distracted from our purpose. While I’ve been into mobile technology for almost as long as I’ve been online, I’ve been detoured into a programming endeavour recently that has finally come to an end, and with it, I’ve found all the time to write that I could have sworn I [...]
Posts have been a bit thin this week, but I’ve been busy with:
Upgrading my PC to Vista Ultimate and reinstalling everything
Releasing the new Clean and Simple Apache ROM installers
Ripping the Buffy musical “Once More, With Feeling” to Xvid and MP3 for playback on my phone :^)
Trying to figure out how to quit being frickin’ nocturnal. [...]
So I went to my writer’s critique group last night, a merry little band we call the “Dead Asimov’s Society” since we’re mostly SF writers. As we sat around discussing In Shining Armor Chapter One, I brought up many of the topics that I’ve been blogging about here for the past week. Okay, I brought [...]
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Okay, let’s try this again. I finally feel like writing again, so let’s see if it sticks.
For those of you that may be wondering, several factors contributed to my dropping off the grid for a couple months.
The first was a horrible case of NaNoWriMo hangover. After writing 50,000 words in a month and blogging about [...]
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
It’s weird how music can trigger memories and moods, and how those can in turn trigger the desire to write certain things. I just got to work and caught the tail edge of Natalie Merchant’s “Carnival” on JackFM, which triggered a flood of memories from 1995, when I listened to Tigerlily over and over (this [...]
Josh came up with an interesting idea the other day. Instead of monthly we should publish quarterly. Primarily, this is to make this more profitable, since we won’t lose as much in Fictionwise conversion fees. While I’m glad to have Fictionwise as a distribution partner, between their cut of the sale price and ebook conversion [...]
I have two weaknesses: snappy dialogue and hot brunettes.
Over the weekend, my first days off after 12 days of work, I started watching the sixth season of Gilmore Girls on DVD, and before I knew it I found myself Sunday night having watched all 22 episodes in a row and the seventh season opener on [...]