When do we fail as writers? Logically, we fail when we don’t fail, that is, when we don’t try. It’s like the lottery: you can’t win if you don’t play. The odds of winning the Powerball Grand Prize are 1 in 195,249,054. The odds of winning the $3 ticket are 1 in 61.74. There are […]
Yesterday was another good day. We started out with having Fry over to play magic. None of the three of us have played magic for years, and none of us played it very seriously. This belies, however, the thoroughness with which Fry learns and assimilates rules for any given circumstance. If we lived closer to
I had a booksigning for Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse yesterday at the north Colorado Springs Borders (Chapel Hills), and it went well. I didn’t sell all the books this time, but that was because there were 100 of them. It was pleasant. I talked to a lot of people. I talked to a girl
I have what is probably a fairly typical writer’s relationship with what is “good enough,” which is to say, “It’s not good enough.” Whatever it is. In some ways, this is a good thing, and I don’t want to lose it entirely; right now, it’s that nudge in my brain that’s saying, “Okay, you now
I don’t know…I have visions of people breaking down in tears…”How could you say something so harsh?!?” — What’s a normal response to failure? Upset, despair, grief, horror, shame…? What’s an abnormal response to failure? Celebration! Amazement! Breaking out the champagne! And so we try to avoid failure and gravitate toward success, because failure feels
All, I got invited to talk at the Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference in April! I completely bounced off the walls when I found out; I think it’s one of those things that I subconsciously marked at “a sign of success” but didn’t know it. When I’m making more $$$ as a freelancer, I’d like to
I don’t know that I’m the world’s best synopsis writer, but recently I’ve improved. I was at a meeting for PPW this November, and Chris Mandeville gave a talk on getting unstuck. Talking to her afterwards, she mentioned something she called a calendar that she used to keep track of the short version of what
It encourages me when I add up the actual numbers, so I’m going to to that more often. I feel like I don’t accomplish anything, looking at it on a day-to-day basis, because I always plan to get more done, and fail. Ah, brains. They’re funny that way. Short Stories in 2010 Short stories written:
All, I have a request. This is the time of year that I gather a lot of my TBR list for the next year (I throw it all on a wish list and check my library as the current stack gets low). What were 10 best books that you read in 2010? They don’t have
I don’t usually do holiday commemorative posts, unless it’s “here’s the recipes for the food we ate” kind of thing, and then I usually put them up on my food blog. The reason for this is that holidays are usually either a) satisfying in a boring kind of way, or b) difficult to talk about.
