System build phase two (unplanned) appears to be pretty much done. So much for what I thought I’d be doing this weekend – when your hard drive starts with the click-whirr that indicates it’s not spinning up properly, it’s time to bail. I will admit to not considering that the extreme age of the hard Read More…
Tag: writing
It Never Ends
Being a writer, that is. No matter what kind of writing someone does, there’s the writer-brain watching in the background, observing and taking notes. Which gets really interesting when I’m doing something like, oh, reading about late-medieval/early Renaissance Florence, around the time the republic of Florence was crumbling. The authors are listing out the factors Read More…
The Writer’s Toolbox – connecting the dots
Not that I’m in the least opinionated, but I think that putting pieces together into the whole is one of the writer’s tools that needs a lot more focus. Why? Well, even though a book can stand, and even succeed, with a major weakness somewhere, unless the author does something about that weakness as they Read More…
Teaser Tuesday
A little something else from that which is my current WIP Since neither one was a particularly potent demon, nervousness made sense: just about anything that attacked here would be capable of at least doing considerable damage, possibly even sending the pair of them back Below. That wasn’t a prospect any demon liked, and the Read More…
Sunday Pot-pourri
Well, the refreshed system is mostly behaving nicely – most of my applications came back with no (or minimal) hiccups once I had the right things installed. I have two irritations: the online game I play for relaxation (an all-ages MMORPG called Wizard101) has acquired an annoying red overlay on some of the objects which Read More…
On the passing of the familiar
Things are changing in the world, and they’re changing fast, but somehow it doesn’t seem to hit until change gets to someone you know and care for. The short version is that I’ve just been on the phone with my mother, and the minor stroke she had last August did more damage than anyone realised Read More…
Teaser Tuesday
Just a wee snippetses from something we’re writing right now, yessss my precioussss…. Whoever had decked out the ballroom did a good job: it was tasteful as well as atmospheric. Drapes in deep red velvet hid the normal hotel-awful decor, and the tables had a mix of Victoriana and steampunk accessories. Again, it wasn’t overdone. Read More…
Sunday Pot-Pourri
I’m more or less back after needing to rebuild my machine. Being a certified (or certifiable) geek, this meant a clean install of Ubuntu using the latest release (eye candy pretty, but it’s going to take a LONG to get used to close buttons on the left. At least let us customize that guys!). The Read More…
Sunday Pot-pourri
The end sequence of the current book has finally clarified itself. If I can make this work it’s going to be a wild ride. Hopefully also a funny one, although that will depend on just how things pan out once I get into the writing. There are going to be a lot of balls in Read More…
Brave New World
A bit less than a month ago, there was an exchange in alt.fan.pratchett about Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and how it relates to happiness and fulfilment. One of the posts in the discussion (available here and including a fair amount of quoted material that the writer is responding to) makes the claim that eliminating Read More…