It’s rare for a fortune cookie to both summarize your life and give you a kick in the ass at the same time. My last one did. It says: I learn by going where I have to go. Charge.
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Aug 26, 2008
|Above World, Life Stuff, Writing
It’s not Labor Day yet, but one thing is certain: I have achieved major fail on my Labor Till Labor Day Dare. My goals were unrealistic (“Write more new words than you’ve ever written in a month and revise two hundred pages on top of that”), and I’d forgotten to factor in my obsession with [...]
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Aug 20, 2008
|Cosmic Toast, Life Stuff, Photos
A few weeks ago, I took some pictures of my office. Not my home office (which is the sofa and my laptop), but my work office. Here’s my desk: Working with other geeks has had some bad side-effects. Notably, the fact that we all have display areas near our desks. While I was looking for [...]
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Aug 12, 2008
|Above World, Life Stuff, Writing
What kind of goofball holds a writing dare the same month as the Olympics? That’s crazy-talk! A few hundred words tonight, but not nearly enough. The finish line isn’t getting any closer. I’ll consider it a victory to have the 4 new chapters written by the end of the month… but even that scares the [...]
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Aug 12, 2008
|Jade Tiger, Writing
I’m compiling a list of reviews for JADE TIGER, and have run into an ethical snag. I understand that it’s normal to pick and choose the most positive comments from a review. I have no problem doing that when the review is overwhelmingly positive. But when the review is more 50/50 good and bad, it [...]
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Aug 7, 2008
|Above World, Writing
The Labor Till Labor Day dare continues! My progress is very slow, but I still have high hopes of reaching my goals by the end of the month. The trouble is, instead of “revising” the first four chapters of my novel, I’m trying to rewrite them from scratch. I’m throwing out every single word in [...]
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Aug 3, 2008
|Above World, Writing
Much as I would like to be at home playing World of Warcraft, I am not. I’m at Lulu’s Beehive, my coffeehouse of choice, working on my novel. Soon, some friends will join me, and we’ll all sit here with our headphones on and do the writing thang. It’s a comfortable blend of social and [...]
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