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I did it. Two plane trips in one day and no hysterics. Very good. I guess it’s progress. We went to the Chicago Field Museum to see, primarily, the Pompeii exhibit. It was [...]

My courage failed me today. Not a single page to my name. I’m reduced to making a long hand outline in my notebook. I will write down all the options and choices possible, [...]

Fifteen pages. A hard, slogging fifteen pages. It wasn’t a muse driven rush, more a battle hard fought and hard won. But we are close. I’d say within three days of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]