Had a very nice dinner out with Jenn and James & Ysa. Managed to get home before the big thunderstorm hit. Inputting the last 60 pages of line edits of God’s War into the text. I’ll be happy when that’s done – tDW is next up for reading and line edits, then I’ll have to […]
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Because sometimes what you write hits people like this: Seriously, there are only a handful of short stories that I look back on and remember vividly: Neil Gaiman’s version of Snow White, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream,” Kate Wilhelm’s “The Funeral,” Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” others I am neglecting,
Printing tDW today (finally, after a lot of false starts). Takes awhile to print 600 pages. Jenn and I are halfway through season 1 of Babylon 5. Good show. Not much more to report. Dinner tomorrow with James and Ysabeau. Inputting some God’s War line edits. My backporch garden continues to grow.
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Oh, how I love those corporate moments when the fact that I screwed something up becomes an asset to the company and means I *don’t* have to do something ALL OVER AGAIN. Ever better, I had some bullshit excuse as to why I just “decided” not to update those particular dates, “Seeings as all of
My back-porch garden is growing. It is most excellent. The older I get, the more I start to take pleasure in the little things again. The little things add up. One of the cab drivers in Indy asked me if I was 22 or 23, because I looked “too young” to have a Master’s degree.
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Anybody in Chicagoland looking for a really good Admin/Executive Assistant/Contract Writer/Project Coordinator? Honestly, I can do just about anything for 40-50K a year. I’m not really picky. Just don’t send me to Indianapolis.
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First major pass of edits are done for The Dragon’s Wall. The book is going to fucking rock. Printing it out tonight or tomorrow and doing line edits on the whole shebang. Inputting line edits, then it goes to the next round of readers for feedback. At least this book will go out on time.
I’ll revisit this when I’m 40
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There is totally someone vomiting in the hall right now. I’m going to bed.
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My boss wants me to maintain my purgatory here in Indy every week, preferably 3-4 days a week. I tried to get him to compromise at 2, but it turns out our client just canned the person who does the equivalent of my job for them, and now I need to help out until everybody’s
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