admin | August 31, 2009
For the first time, my website has logged over 3,000 unique visitors in one month! That’s a record for my site, and I’m thrilled! Of course, I owe it all to you, literally. Thanks for stopping by so often to read my daily blog or check out the other content on the site. I’m genuinely [...]
admin | August 30, 2009
Very little writing-related activity today, or all weekend for that matter. I’m not happy about it, but sometimes it just works out that way. The fact is, we had a great weekend weather-wise, and I had to get caught up on outdoor chores I’d been neglecting for the past few weeks. Plus, I had other [...]
admin | August 29, 2009
Not much accomplished on the writing side today, just an hour’s worth of edits on a short story…but that’s okay. My wife and I had quite a few chores to accomplish, including outdoor work that ate a good bit of time. For one thing, I had to disconnect the pool heater, which has sprung a [...]
admin | August 28, 2009
I saw the film Inglourious Basterds tonight, which was truly a singular experience…and it got me thinking. How much logic do we expect from a piece of art? How much do we need to believe that events in a film or book or story happen in a way that’s consistent with what we think of [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
There comes a time in every writer’s life when revisions are the order of the day! When the process of writing something fresh from scratch must play second fiddle to tuning up existing work to make it better. That’s the kind of time I’m hitting right now, as revisions take precedence over brand-new composition. I’ve just [...]
admin | August 26, 2009
For the first time in probably a year, I’ve finished cleaning my home office! What a chore, too. My office has lots of shelves, tables, and surfaces where papers and files and receipts just pile up to the ceiling! Plus, I’ve got collectibles and plenty of books scattered around, and many corners and crannies where [...]
admin | August 25, 2009
In spite of recent TechFail struggles and distractions, today turned out to be wonderfully productive. I managed to accomplish a lot, deal with the runaway laptop mouse issue (I hope!), eat at our local Mexican place with my wife, and watch another episode of True Blood on DVD from Netflix. Still have a lot to [...]
admin | August 25, 2009
In my last post, I forgot to mention another Techfail event! Yesterday, my Koss noise cancelling headsets (aka my ticket to sanity at the day job) died on me! Just in case you didn’t believe in the power of Techfail, how do you like them apples? What technology will fail me next, before Techfail blows [...]
admin | August 24, 2009
As expected, Techfail 2009 continues to plague me! This evening, I tried to fix the problem with the new wireless mouse that’s controlling two laptops for the price of one…and I ended up spending literally hours on the phone with tech support. At one point, I was bounced from Dell’s hardware department to wireless, then [...]
admin | August 23, 2009
Here we go again! Yet another edition of Techfail has struck my world! As regular readers of my blog will know, this happens to me periodically: any electronic devices (and mechanical, too, sometimes) I come in contact with go on the fritz. It’s a weird but very real phenomenon, and it drives me crazy. This [...]
The Fictioneer will be appearing at World Fantasy 36, set for October 28-31, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.
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