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Category: dispatches from the loony bin

  • 30 in 30: Day 02 (in which I’m actually pretty serious about The Fifth Sacred Thing)

    Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about I’ve been putting off writing this post, because I was playing World of Warcraft. (You thought I was going to say something thoughtful or poignant, didn’t you? Silly. You should know by now.) Truth is, there are a lot…

  • That’s progress, I suppose

    I have not actually written any on The Jade Star of Athering since August 2nd. However, I have thought about writing on it, and even opened the notebook to the appropriate page so I can start typing up the handwritten chapters I have done so I can continue on, as I’ve reached that point where…

  • Daily Heart Attack

    Today I signed into Facebook and saw this:   Augh! What do you mean only ninety-eight days? I haven’t finished The Jade Star of Athering, Islands of Fire and Water, OR The Man of Bronze! How the frak am I supposed to start a new novel in 98 days??? Ahh! Ahhh! AHHHHHHHHHH! *hyperventilates* *calms down*…

  • Adventures with an Amsterdam Prostitute

    This past weekend was a long one for Victoria Day (Canadian holiday — yes, we have those), so I decided to go to my dad’s for a few days. My dad is a farmer, and going to visit him means helping out on the farm or in the garden. WHAT I AM A WRITER I…

  • Book Review: Unleashed (Paranormal Romance). Now with more swearing!

    Recently I was given a copy of Unleashed — a set of 4 short stories all in the genre of Paranormal Romance. Awesome, I think. I need a good escape. Unfortunately, two out of four of the stories made me want to escape back into real life because the men I know are better than…

  • Take from the rich to give to the poor: the Robin Hood Tax and its implications for Canada and the world at large

    So, here in Canada we’re lobbying for something called The Robin Hood Tax to be put into place1. The basic idea of the tax is this: every day banks and financial institutions have tons of transactions, right? Well, what if we put a small tax — only .05% — on each transaction, payable by the…

  • Determination

    It pays off. I found my notebook! As I was posting earlier it occurred to me, somewhere in that thing I call a brain, that the notebook may be in my set of plastic, clear drawers, because I remembered setting the notebook on top of the drawers while I was packing. So I toddled on…

  • Word to the Wise

    So, fellow writers, I have a bit of advice. If, like me, you find that your words come easiest when you write them down in a notebook and then type them up later, and if, like me, you have a habit of keeping a notebook that’s always a few chapters ahead of whatever story you…

  • I’m still your best pilot

    I wrote 4,602 words in January and haven’t penned one since. I’m hoping to write about 26k a month this summer to try and catch up. We’ll see how that goes. Story goals are same as before, with an addition. Finish editing Parts 2 and 3 of Bellica and upload to site. Finish The Jade Star of Athering.…

  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day….

    2009 was a fairly productive year, writing-wise. I finished Bellica, started and finished Snowbound, and started The Jade Star of Athering. I also wrote a few poems, published a book of poetry, and reached a total of 156,732 for my yearly word count. I didn’t make my goal of 200,000, but I’m not too concerned…