A cutting from Blood Winter
This is is the epilogue that got cut from Blood Winter. I don’t believe there are any spoilers, since this never happened. But I’d love for it to happen down the road. Epilogue She woke hungry. She sat up. She…
comment on cooking
When I was younger, like early teens, I used to make up ‘recipes’ for cakes and things and bake them in the oven and my family even sometimes ate them. Those things that were edible. I had no idea what…
the sludge moves
I got some writing done today. Yay. And the blizzard they’ve named Brutus is sweeping Montana. Hasn’t kicked in to much here. But apparently it will and we’ll get a bunch of snow tonight and tomorrow. we’ll see. Oftenwrong is…
A long snippet from Blood Winter (Max is Back!)
We’ve got a showing on the house on Monday. That means I have to clean this weekend. I mean, really clean. Plus rake leaves. I have some help from children, but mostly it will be me. Plus I start a…
Kicking butt and taking names
First, I have an interview up on Short and Sweet Reviews. Come visit! . Come visit and see what I have to say. You might find something out about me you didn’t know . . . In other news, I…
One small spurt of creativity and words
Today turned out to be one of those days where I did extraordinarily little but hang out with the kids. I did make them clean their rooms and scoop dog poop. And I read. I finally had a creativity/writing push…
The snippet and the day that was
Today I drove a far far away in order to hang out with a friend (which was absolutely worth the whole drive) and then we got tennis rackets at 30% off, which was nice. Then we got pants for the…
Upon which I admit to not knowing what I’m doing
How do I not know things, let me count (some) ways . . . First, I really don’t know how to roll up and secure chicken when I’m stuffing it. I made it tonight and the stuffing leaked. I don’t…
when books fail
I started a book today. Reading it, that is. I didn’t get far. Maybe two chapters, and I don’t really like it. I’m going to keep reading, because I thought the premise was so interesting, but I hope things improve.…
writer neuroses
Actually, this comes under the topic of neuroses, but I’m only covering one here. The fear of running out of ideas. That includes general plot ideas as well as world ideas, characters, and even clothing and food ideas. I live…