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Nine pages today on Merry. Which is really cool. I’ve gotten five or more pages done for the last three days. So why not raise the bar, and make eight my minimum like it was [...]

The best writing is rewriting. E. B. White Why start with that quote? One, he’s one of my favorite writers. Two, BLOOD NOIR is back from the copy editors. Sigh. Remember how [...]

People ask me, how do I write on days when I don’t want to write? What do I do when the muse is not only not whispering in my ear, but it feels like she’s taken a [...]

It’s always hard to get back on track when I’ve been traveling. I’m trying to get better at it, but it’s a not a strong suit. Not yet. I spent the morning [...]

We’re back home. Yea! I did better on the flights than I’ve done in the past. There was a moment on the homeward bound one that I started to panic, but I remembered to [...]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! Airplane ride. Need I say more? But, of course, it’s me, so I am; I will. I have the Bose headphones that cancel out noise, but, they [...]

I woke up in the dark, staring at the ceiling. You know that instant awake, that usually means you’ve heard something odd, or your last dream was too real, or, in my case, [...]

Friday was a very disrupted day. Jon and I had an appointment in the morning, and we had parent/teacher conferences in the afternoon. Which means it was not looking good for more [...]

I went back to my desk after lunch and was much more productive yesterday. Part of it was, I think, that Charles came over and went to lunch with Jon and I. One of my resolutions [...]

I have been staring at the same page of the Merry book all morning. I haven’t a sentence to my name. I am on page 51, but that’s because I started the day on that [...]