Month: April 2008

  • Last night I performed surgery. Behold the patient: Giraffey had gaping wounds in his side, belly, and HEAD. RILEY ATE HIS BRAINS!!!! But then for some reason, Riley thought I was actually hurting Giraffey with my little needle and thread, as if his voracious gnawing was a mere head massage. The pup paced around me…

  • How sad am I?

    I thought this game was super-fun!

  • (quote)

    From Paulo Coelho’s blog: Writing is a constant challenge, where you have to dig into your soul, having discipline, inspiration, and courage at the same time.

  • I hear typing! Real, live, FAST typing. Productive typing. The kind of click click clicks that are going somewhere, and ain’t stopping for no one, no how. That’s so exciting! It’d be more exciting if it were my typing, though. See, I’m a writer. I’m supposed to write. But I don’t. Instead I read Dooce,…

  • “Writuals”

    Following in his girlfriend’s footsteps, Teo sent me a cute article about the writing habits and routines (“writuals”) of 6 famous Irish writers. It was interesting to see what I had in common with them (working best in the mornings) and what they did that was different (needing or wanting complete silence). I also thought…