In Shadows

Last week left a lot to be desired, let me tell you.  Work was weird with two crazy ladies on separate days to be evicted. My schedule was wonky due to a training meeting at the buttcrack of dawn.  All in all, this arthritic old woman has spent most of her time resting on her [...]

Spent today plugging Broken Trails into Scrivener, and can already see a problem.  While I wanted a lot of the focus to be on Lainey’s POV (she’s the vehicle through which the reader learns about the Iditarod,) I’ve completely skipped the majority of the race from Scotch’s POV.  Rather than expand the novel even farther [...]

Happy Birthday, Raven!!! WOOT! Cold’s still dragging me down.  Still not able to concentrate worth a damn.  Instead, I used today’s work time to transfer documents and research into Scrivener projects.  Wrapped up all the short stories, Slow Movin’ series, and fodder/character sketches.  Also built the technical tables for my future Freya’s Tears space adventure, [...]

Oi, what a week!  You know what’s worse than a garage band staying in your hotel?  THIRTY garage bands staying in your hotel!  UGH!  It was a freakin’ ZOO! What with exhaustion, Poison Night, a six day stretch of Hel, and a mountain of unfinished chores, I haven’t actually written anything on Broken Trails.  I’ll [...]

Another 6470 words edited on Broken Trail.  Lainey’s almost at the finish line.  Changes here include Scotch’s Iditarod placement — she doesn’t come in third at all, it seems…  At this point, I need to write at least two more scenes for certain, both from Scotch’s POV on the trail.  I wanted to spend most [...]

Whoa!  A whopping 8276 words edited this time round on Broken Trail. WOOT! Watched Children of Men last night.  Loved the way it was filmed.  Michael Caine’s character was a hoot!  The scene with the soldiers and the baby made me cry.  This is the second time I’ve read/seen something with this sort of premise [...]

No posting yesterday because I didn’t do any writing to note.  A friend I RPG with on a Star Trek ship moved here from California last summer.  We finally made arrangements to get together.  He now understands the Awe and Power of the Shrine, Powell’s.  (“And this,” waving to one half of a huge room, [...]

Happy October, everyone! Three more chapters of Broken Trail edited. 6483 words. No significant changes to be had. I may read through those chapters on Saturday before the next round just to be sure I couldn’t have shoved some angst in there somewhere. I finished the last of Tanya Huff’s Blood Books last night.  While [...]

Broken Trails, chapters twenty-seven and twenty-eight are ready to go.  About 3100 words edited.  Lainey’s come to the conclusion that she is an alcoholic, though she’s yet to say the words aloud. I think that’ll wait until the end of the book — I can already envision the scene where Scotch’s mysterious past is finally [...]

New words!  WOOT!  1262 wordcount for a new scene in Chapter Twenty-Five of Broken Trails, wherein Lainey’s first qualification run (the Kuskokwim 300) is detailed. She eats snow. Not by choice.  LOL! Started editing the next scene of that chapter, as well. Not finished yet. I need to show more of the residual awkwardness between [...]

What with the economy crashing, the hundreds and thousands of jobs going by the wayside, and the looming homelessness occurring in our society these days, my best wish for everyone is to maintain…  I hope we all can keep the money rolling enough to pay the necessary bills, to buy the food for ourselves and [...]

I’m delighted to announce the re-release of Facing Evil. With a few changes, and added poetry, this newer version of Facing Evil embodies a much sleeker and more refined story. I am very appreciative and pleased with what PD Publishing has done to bring this captivating story back to life. For all those involved at [...]

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! *

Both my desk and inbox are clean.  The first week of using Backpack is over.  It’s actually a pretty powerful program – providing you keep up on it. Just finished reading another Ender book, Speaker For The Dead.  Now that I’ve read the parallel novels (Shadow of the Hegemon,) I see the Ender novels a [...]

My latest obsession . . .  Things at work are changing (mixed bag, both for the better and the worse.)  I’m literally taking over the department as our previous operational supervisor has moved to a different department.  Better for me physically, but I hate phones.  LOL Now that I’m managing all sorts of crap, I [...]