In Shadows

Now THAT’S perspective!

At least at the moment. (No collaboration, either, Zero. LOL!)
I spent yesterday in hot and heavy emails with my friend, Nene. Her offer to help me figure out a storyline was very kind, and I wasn’t going to let the opportunity pass.
Having to put one of my ideas into an email in […]

I’m getting nowhere.  Fast.  Can’t seem to focus anywhere.  I have a number of projects to edit or begin editing, twenty plus storylines I’ve thought of over the years, and nothing wants to settle down to be written.
UGH!
Going over my past writing doesn’t seem to help me do much more than realize how much my […]

Well, after three days of writing . . . piddly, mewling, crappy writing . . . I decided it all sucked.  Crammed it together on a file titled ‘cuts,’ and started again.
That’s what I needed to do.  Just busted out a thousand words in an hour that’s a lot more powerful than before.  I’m liking […]

The old standby at the park blocks rather than the new coffee shop in my life.  Had to head up to OHSU this morning for a blood test, then ran a couple of errands.  I was closer to here than home, so here I am.
(Looks like I just got here in time, too.  The place […]

The neverending search for a place to write, somewhere out of the way to shake up my recent bad habits of cruising the internet at my desk, has resulted in a cheaper alternative than a coffee house.  Here I sit on my balcony - internet access enabled, but not a distraction - with my iBook, […]

Here I sit at the Urban Grind coffee house in the Pearl District.  I was impressed with the funky little place the last time I was here.  Unfortunately, thats’ when I got so deathly ill and I haven’t been back since.
But today I have a purpose.
Last night while online, I became bored, really bored.  I […]

I also found the bestest book in the whole wide world today!
The Lakota Dictionary, compiled and edited by Eugene Buechel and Paul Manhart.
I’m in love! * SQUEE! *

Or, My First Fan Encounter.
I responded to a comment to today, and thought this would actually make a decent post about idiocy…  I’ll just quote the majority of the text:
My first encounter with a fan went HORRIBLY. I attended the local SF/F convention that year, Orycon, and my wife staked out a table in […]

On the hearing front…
Visited the Tinnitus Clinic yesterday.  Seems there might be some sort of correction possible.  If it’s doable and it works, my loss would be raised up to moderate rather than serious to profound.
We’ll make an appointment today with the surgeon for a meeting.  The doctor I saw yesterday said that exploratory surgery […]

Susan Butcher loses battle
by CRAIG MEDRED
Anchorage Daily News
Published: August 5, 2006
Last Modified: August 5, 2006 at 09:21 PM
Far from her Alaska home and the dogs she loved so much, four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital.
She was 51 years old and the mother of two young daughters. She had been waging […]

I’m in a small gift shop with my wife.  The woman behind the counter is an old friend we accidentally ran into, and hadn’t seen for awhile.  Beside me is a notebook with my current project, a writing pen, and a brown marker that I’ve been using to edit as I go.
Some guy comes up […]