NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. My screen name is dknippling – if you care to add me as a buddy, feel free. Send me an e-mail with your name or drop it in comments if I can add you, too. Log lines welcome 🙂 The current title is Slaughterhouse Jane. The book’s a YA fantasy set in […]

I started writing up Ray’s birthday party after the party, then went WTFAYDDA?* and took a bath instead. Now I can’t get the post date to put it to the top of the list, so click here if you want to read about it, because it’s all further down and I don’t want to tire

I’m cleaning out my inbox — got this at work. The Bacon Tree Two Mexicans are stuck in the desert, wandering aimlessly and close to death. They are close to just lying down and waiting for the inevitable, when all of a sudden……. ‘Hey Jose, do you smell what I smell. Ees bacon I is

Ann loaned me a book, Stuff White People Like, by Christian Lander. There’s a website, too. Now, most of this book does not apply to most white people, but most of it applied to me–either directly or because I know someone who’s like that. As the temperature starts to drop, many white people are forced

Ray’s birthday was on Friday the 17th. We ordered pizza (she picked Italian ham, pepperoni, and pineapple), opened presents, played World of Warcraft together, and played a good bit of a round of Pet Shop Monopoly. The joys of turning seven in a geek-positive house. Sunday the 19th was her birthday party, with kids from

Lee’s brother Dale is in town for two weeks!

I went to the PPW Fall writer’s workshop, “Goal, Motivation, and Conflict and the Writer’s Journey,” presented by Debra Dixon. I took a lot of notes, I mean, a lot of notes. (It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s just that I’m too lazy at the moment.) Little lightbulbs went off all the time.

In which Harv finally succeeds (Wondermark).

Here’s me, finishing up Alien Blue: You know you’ve been blogging too much when you start typing HTML tags instead if CTRL-i for italics. (Is there a mod or setting for Word that lets you get away with this?) Pandora radio is good, but it won’t be as good as having a human being picking

I’m working on Alien Blue. I finished the rewrite on the Shootout at the OK Corral chapter, which leaves me with just a few loose ends to tie up. Then a scrub for consistency, etc., and I’m…ready to send it off. The end is in sight?