Of dreams too strange to be nightmares
I had a weird dream last night. It seemed to tie together teaching, the cattle ranch where I grew up, and attending a con. I don’t exactly understand (or don’t begin to understand) what exactly the story was in the…
cryptic
I was invited to apply to do something very cool, so I did, and now I’m waiting for the higherups in the process to give me a green or red light. Keep your fingers crossed. Not writing related. I had…
checking in on life
I don’t have a lot of updates on the boy. Still barfing, though he is sleeping better. I have several things to get done over the next six weeks. 1) make any updates/changes to The Cipher for reissue, 2) revise…
What a character fears most
I was looking at some stuff on plotting and thinking about what I know about characters. One of the things that you can do to sort out a character and story is to think about what that character fears the…
the work and the boy
The boy was scoped today. I videotaped some of him being really goofy on drugs. The doc found nothing in particular so far. We wait for biopsies. There was one small nodule that could be something or not, and that…
panic attack
I’ve had an endoscopy. It’s not that bad. I don’t remember much and I had a sort throat after. It was pretty non-traumatic. Okay, that’s actually a lie. Because it was paired with a colonoscopy, it was terrible. Mostly the…
What I’m tired of
I’m really of tired of not being able to plot out stories; of my head refusing to sort out a plot before I write. It’s incredibly annoying and it slows down what I want to do. Lately I’ve been getting…
back and forward and reading and writing
The boy went to the gastro yesterday and there are tests underway. One of which requires collecting a stool sample, and so we are waiting for that to, ahem, arrive. But he started barfing even more, despite increasing the dosage…
Beginning freezing
I posted that little bit the other day of a story I wanted to work on. And then I promptly froze. It was so easy and so fun to write, and then I froze. I know a bit about the…
Planning for the New Year
This is actually a very strange thing to do for me. Usually, my plans revolved around teaching and surviving through the year and the New Year always came mid-academic year, so planning just didn’t seem timely. But now I’m a…