Sky’s red and it’s snowing again, all quiet and secret-like, like it thought I wouldn’t notice. It’s not blowing hard and the flakes have tried to make themselves as unnoticeable as possible. You can only tell they’re coming down in the orangish light of a back porch or the rare suburban street lamp.

So today was the first day of my offical novel writing month. I have a partner who is doing it with me and at 8:00am we got crackin’ with the laptops and requisite cups of warm stuff to drink. After our first break we busted into bowls of muesli. I’m excited that I have a […]

Two days ago there was a ladybug on my kitchen window. Now there are five. From where do they spring? Although if yesterday’s balmy temperature and soft winds are an indicator, then perhaps they are a true symbol of spring. I often wonder, if we analyzed our daily lives the way we analyze our dreams, […]

Sometimes you do things that you just don’t mean to do. Sometimes some other part of your brain takes over and does what you don’t want it to.

Well, with a kernel of an idea, I hammered out 1740 words of my first chapter (see the previous entry for clarification).* Then my advisor on this matter beseeched me to abstain from my literary dalliances long enough

A good friend mentioned a novel (ha ha… very punny) idea today… the idea of writing a novel in a month. Take the arduous project of writing a 50,000 word novel, and break it up into 30 work segments, or 30 days, and you’ve got roughly 1,700 words a day to get on the page. […]