After a great deal of angst and second-guessing, I broke up with B last week. This wasn’t a sudden decision. A couple months ago, I filled out a bunch of paperwork for the Peace Corps. Months before that, we broke up or nearly broke up because I wanted to apply for a game-writing job up […]
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Song on repeat today: Ryan Adams, “Come Pick Me Up.” When they call your nameWill you walk right upWith a smile on your faceOr will you cower in fearIn your favorite sweater With an old love letterI wish you would I wish you wouldCome pick me upTake me outFuck me upSteal my recordsScrew all my
Line edits for God’s War are complete. Finally. Now it’s time to finish writing the damn thing. 100 pages to go.
It’s planting season. It was 66 degrees last night, and let me tell you – I’m ready for spring. Spending the morning cleaning up the back porch area, getting the bins ready for planting basil and parsley, morning glories and peas. Have about 90 pages of line edits left on God’s War. Edits for The
And then the whole world imploded! Just like I didn’t want to happen. I deserve no less.
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Sadly, I qualify this year for a Campbell award for Best New Writer for my short story, Genderbending at the Madhattered. This is sad because 1) I haven’t written a ton of stuff that would showcase my work because I’m bogged down in novels 2) I only have one year left of eligibility for the
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Well, yea. That’s why you don’t teach women to read. Or slaves. Or anybody else you want to control. They might realize there’s something else out there. They might start thinking things could be really different.
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The regional VP stopped me in the conference room today and said, “Are we losing you? You’ve lost a lot of weight. Are you OK? You don’t want to do anything dangerous.” It still bothers me when people do this. “I’m just lifting weights in the morning,” I said. “I don’t really feel like I’m