Book. The first draft of The Gods of Grey Hill is done. Done! Done! I tell you, Done! Now I have 67 pages to type in 🙂 — I feel sad. I went to a coffee shop to drink chai and write the last few pages and I cried on the way home. It’s done. […]

Ray Updates. Damn. She’s getting so tall. We have good days and bad days, which seem to follow a correlation with my patience level. What’s the word? Heterodyne? Yeah, that’s the word. We’re definitely already two women living in the same house, which means, yes, that we have to hold hands going to the bathroom

Neener neener neener. I found the perfect Christmas present for my folks and siblings. And I’m not going to tell them what it is!

Thank you. Lee’s mom (in South Dakota) sent me a jar of chokecherry jelly. Thank you. I haven’t opened it yet; I swore to myself I’d finish the open jar of jelly in the fridge (blackberry) before I did. Sure enough, every time I look at it, I think, “I could be having chokecherry jelly

Working. Almost done with Saturday. Scary. As it turns out, things fit together better than I would have predicted. Do you know how scary that is? The story put itself together out of random items that I didn’t originally include in the plot, but suggested themselves. It’s like watching a movie in someone else’s mind.

Cracked me up. Now, maybe this is just too obscure, but I thought it ought to be immortalized in more than one place: Quote from Randy Timmer, in a comment of ***Dave’s blog (you’ll just have to read the full entry to get the context): “If you sign up to be the main attraction in

Lee Quote: “Sometimes you you have to switch the gerbil over to decaf.” –On having waaaaay too many ‘brilliant’ ideas.

Clone Wars. The Clone Wars Micro-Series is online at Cartoon Network here.

Psycho-logical test. My brother Matt sent me this: This is an authentic psychological test: It is a story about a girl–While at the funeral of her mother, she met a man whom she did not know. She thought he was amazing, her dream guy, and she fell in love with him but never asked for

Shower. Taking showers is supposed to be good for having ideas because, according to whatever source Doyce heard it from, ios are released into the air, exciting your brain. Neat idea, but sleeping in always works better for me…I lay in bed (I’m always the first one up) and wait for everyone else to wake