Month: August 2009

  • How come no one is up to keep me company when I write late at night? Even my boyfriend and my dog are asleep. Sure it’s less distracting this way, but… okay, no, I know it’s better this way. “Books are written by the alone for the alone,” right? Sigh. Actually I’m finding that I…

  • • Finished [Twenty-Somewhere] Episode 29: Escalation! One night Claudia wakes up alone in bed. Well, alone with the dog Max, anyway. “Eli?” she whispers. If he had trouble sleeping and moved to the couch, she doesn’t want to wake him, but if he’s just wandering for some reason, she’d like to know that he’s there…

  • I would love a job like this: “[Airports] express all the things that make the modern world so strange and horrifying and beautiful and exciting. They’re all about interconnection. They’re about technology. They’re about our loss of contact with nature; they’re about consumerism and our dreams of travel. All of this comes to life at…

  • I just wanted to give a big thanks to Kirsty Greenwood of Novelicious for featuring me and Twenty-Somewhere today! I think there’s potential for me to win some sort of prize if y’all go over there and show me some love…? Regardless, I’m grateful for the exposure and feedback. And HI THERE to any new…

  • Um, in a complete reversal from last night, today I reread a few pages of my manuscript and what do you know? I really liked them! Maybe writing’s not so bad after all. :P Word Count – Aug 22, 2009: