Reading
I started out the year reading a whole bunch and then this month I’ve not been reading that much. In fact, only one book in the last couple of weeks. Finished it today. I didn’t really like it–it wasn’t particularly…
Bread baking
I did some bread baking this weekend. Made a beer batter bread. Quick bread. It turned out pretty well. Made it whole wheat with Black Butte Porter. I then made a whole wheat bread dough. I grind the flour myself.…
Today ran by fast
I spent the morning doing a lot of outlining work for a short story I’m working on. It’s set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world (awesome books, btw, if you’ve not read them), and so this requires me to do…
Back in the saddle again
I came back from the writing retreat having written 32, 281 words in basically 3.5 days. I am completely stunned. I have never written that much in that little time, ever. I worked on the sequel to The Incubus Job…
Writing Retreat
Tomorrow I will head off to the Rainforest Writers Village in the Olympic Rainforest. I’ve done some really good words done the last couple of years there. I’m hoping this one goes even better. My back has been giving me…
Sunday with nachos
And football. The game has been less than interesting. The commercials not particularly funny or entertaining. The halftime show–the Boy of Size and I decided that the boys group was wearing clothes made of shiny plastic bags, and the girls…
A couch!!!
Actually two couches, but we have them! After a month without, we have them. And the dogs are so happy. Kids are too. And me too. It’s so very nice to actually have them instead of sitting in camp chairs.…
Depression and Writing and Imposter Syndrome
I’ve been thinking about writing this for awhile, but haven’t been ready. I’ve decided to take the plunge. Apparently I have depression. (I’m going to come back to the ‘apparently’ in that phrase). I used to work in a toxic…
scrape, mold, pile, click . . .
I have rebuilt/rewritten the 2K words that I lost. Accidentally killed. Whatever. So now I’m back up to speed and hopefully I can run with it tomorrow. In the meantime, I posted a blog on Magical Words today about starting…
Furniture debacle
Or at least that’s what the dogs call it. Maybe furniture armageddon. Because for them, it is the end of all things good. What happened is that we had a big sectional with recliners in each end seat. We’d had…