You’re out for a stroll with your two most important people, and there on the sidewalk, in bright pink chalk, are the words. And your seven year old, who is so proud of her reading, stops to puzzle them out. “Black. Lives. Matter.” She looks at you. “What does that mean?” You’re close to home, …
I’ve been really enjoying not shopping at Amazon. We have Prime. Lots of people have Prime. But right now, Prime for physical goods doesn’t matter because right now Amazon (with all apologies) is telling us unless it’s essential it’s not coming in a day or two days or even three. They’re overwhelmed. And (ostensibly) protecting …
…but really what I want to call out is the most unhelpful thing I hear along this winding journey to publication-land (or not), that I’ve had lobbed at me by friends and relatives, that drove me to write this whole outpouring.
And that is of course the all-too-innocent “how’s the novel going?” question.
Other working titles: “The General’s Midwife”, which is more likely to be a finished title than not.
Lone Wil and Cub #6 will be in SEASONS, coming this fall. It’s titled “The Maralud Comes A-Knocking”, and features Ivy and Grier as the main characters.
The other side of the decade. How you got here, I still don’t know. Today you decorated a butterfly mask. Tomorrow is bigger to you than Christmas. You already know what you’re going to wear. I’m pretty sure your ensemble includes that butterfly mask. You don’t yet know the flavor of your cake, though you’ve …
I don’t write poetry, but I just moved out of a house and I have this In my head so: here.
Aaaaand we’re 400 words into LW&C #6. Aaaaaaaaaand my new sleep med is now kicking in so I need to stop before I go completely whackadoodle. …seems like a great time to write a blog post and publish it on the Internet!
The good news is my proposal for the next anthology has been accepted. The bad news is, we’re selling our house and moving closer to my workplace and everything is chaos on the homefront with multiple disruptions and no flow time. This isn’t abnormal. I’ve worked under this kind of pressure before, but it also …
About six months ago, my therapist looked at me and said, “You give away your power a lot, don’t you?”