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Category: writing
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Practicing Dictation
So I was away from home over the weekend, which was highly conducive to things like relaxation, plotting with my Evil Muse, and reading. Funny how you can focus on the pleasures of life when there aren’t, say, a sink full of dishes and teens calling your name. I read through – it’s a…
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On the Road
Traveling down to Kentucky with the First Reader today. Ostensibly it’s to visit family and give a little respite to a caregiver. However, I intend to milk it for all it’s worth. It’s rare, these days, I get to enjoy hours at a time in a small box-on-wheels with my Evil Muse. I have…
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Space Trader
I’ve been all over the map with my writing recently. I’m working very hard at writing daily – so far, it’s more like every other day, but that’s still progress. I’ve written short bits for prompts, and some on this, some on that… I sat down and looked at my list of unfinished projects…
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Snapshot
Jim knew he was somewhere beyond tired, ranging into exhaustion and the peculiar drunken twilight of sleep psychosis, but he was certain he would have remembered the camera. He stared down at it, right there in the center of his desk, for a long moment before turning carefully away, looking at the coffeepot instead.…
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Odd Prompts: Jack’s Stick
So I started a weekly writing (or art!) prompt for the year. The writing group More Odds than Ends is taking part, along with other folks, hence the name ‘Odd Prompts.’ It works by people who want to participate submitting a short prompt to oddprompts@gmail.com and then on Wednesdays, the prompts are published as…
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Decommissioned
Yesterday was Science Fiction Day, according to the calendar in my lab. In honor of that, I wrote a bit of a story for my blog readers. Happy Science Fiction Day! May the horizons of humanity grow ever larger. “…decommissioning.” The earbud hissed, then cut out. Jack was already rolling out of bed. He’d…
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Bloggiversary
Fourteen years, more than 2200 posts, and umpteen-thousand words ago, this blog started off as something quite different from the form it takes today. When it all began, I was a stay-at-home mom running a business from home, helping manage a small farm, and the blog was how I shared my family news and…
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Books Covered
I know some of you know I do book covers. This isn’t a big part of what I do, because I haven’t got the time or energy. But there are some people I really want to see get a good cover, and some who have trusted me with their work for quite a while…
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Marginalia
One small thing I sometimes miss about real paper books is the ability to scribble in the margin. I’ve done this rarely with fiction books, although I have copied out beautiful quotes, especially when I was younger and still had hopes of achieving lovely handwriting through practice. With history, though, and other books I wanted…
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Help me get my sister reading!
I am asking for help crowd-sourcing a very special book list. This one’s for my sister. Background: my baby sister Juniper is severely handicapped. She’s autistic, with… complications. Funny, loving, but perpetually a child in need of constant care and attention. Developmentally she’s about 4, and Mom has tried to teach her how to read…
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Walnut Hull Ink
If you live with Black Walnut Trees, you know all about the way the hulls stain your fingers when you try to reach the elusive but delicious nuts inside that baseball sized green hull. If you think about it, anything that stains can be used as a dye – or an ink. As a chemist…
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Remembrance Day
We shall never forget. The children born on that day are now considered adults. They are able to vote, to drive, to fly without a guardian. They will not remember the world before the Day when the Towers fell, and the Pentagon was smashed, and a plane dove into a field powered by heroes who…