Illusions

Feb 22 , 2006
I’ve done thirteen pages today. Merry is closer to the end than I thought she was, but still a ways to go. Close enough that it gives me that illusion that if I just kept my [...]
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Photo shoots and adventures in make up

Feb 21 , 2006
I didn’t get a single page done today on either book. Had a photo shoot for St. Louis Magazine. It’s part of an article they’re doing on me. No, I don’t [...]
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Stuck

Feb 20 , 2006
Stuck on Merry. My own fault. I took the weekend off. I know better when a book is close to the end. But tomorrow I will go to the new office and spread it all out on a table. [...]
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The Dragon almost won

Feb 16 , 2006
The dragon won yesterday. I ended up quitting work early and climbing into a hot bath to lick my wounds. Today was the first day, really, back to work since the great computer [...]
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Don’t trust the computers

Feb 15 , 2006
I didn’t get much done yesterday. I tried, but it was just no go. I did a business call with my editor late in the afternoon. Susan was talking to me about the short story [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day

Feb 14 , 2006
Jon’s roses just arrived. One of the things that charmed me about him was that he enjoys getting flowers. I like a man who lets me be charming. I also got him one of those [...]
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Thank you from me, to DriveSavers®

Feb 11 , 2006
It wasn’t a virus. It was a physical failure of the computer hard drive.(Jon here – The Diagnoses was one of Physical dammage to the drive. The Read / Write arm failed [...]
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Thank you DriveSavers®

Feb 10 , 2006
A package arrived today with the DVD restores of the crashed HD from the server. The data was recovered and is all in good shape. The hard drive had a physical failure and there [...]
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Beautiful and sad

Feb 04 , 2006
I’ve tried to write several blogs over the last few days and found them all wanting. I’m putting this up not because I think it’s that great, but because most of [...]
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Sex Scenes

Jan 31 , 2006
I did eight pages this morning on Merry, but the chapter ended so that the next chapter begins, or is entirely, a sex scene. I’ve learned through hard experience never to [...]
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