by Mel | Mar 30, 2008 | Random thoughts
You know, there’s something about hitting the last third of a book, even a very first drafty draft of a book like this one, that makes my brain go a little crazy. Normal people do not wander around the supermarket doing page count calculations in their heads...
by Mel | Mar 25, 2008 | Random thoughts, Writing
After a couple of big page days, I think today will be a ‘go back and stitch things together’ day. I’m not pushing the pages, I need to do some reading for crits as well but I do want to put in the bits I skipped, smooth out the raggedy edges a...
by Mel | Mar 17, 2008 | Life, Random thoughts
Today is my official writing day off. Just as well because I am mostly brain dead from the heat. So I have no metrics but I do have this – Terry Pratchett has donated $1 million to Alzheimers research and there’s a campaign for the fans to match his...
by Mel | Mar 7, 2008 | Cool stuff, Random thoughts
Congrats to my Aunt Pam, who is one of the five HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development recipients! Yay! Interesting this hereditary stuff…though we write very different things, there are obviously scribes and scribblers in the family somewhere. I...
by Mel | Feb 3, 2008 | Life, Random thoughts
The problem with having moved all the stuff OFF the carpet is having to put it all back. I’ve been trying to figure out whether I can move anything around as a bit of change but keep coming to the frustrating conclusion that small house and my current furniture...
by Mel | Feb 1, 2008 | Life, Random thoughts
Things you learn while tidying up your house in preparation for having carpets cleaned: 1. My cats can shed an infinite amount of hair. Mostly the grey one. I mean I vacuum often and yet there’s still cat hair, cat hair, cat hair, especially in the squirrelly,...
