Writer Tamago

1,780 / 1,800(98.9%) There we go! First draft of AniCoz wig article. It's a wrap for today. Next steps: 1. Smooth out interview part. 2. Organize instructions. 3. Choose and add pattern sketches and illustrative pictures. If I can do the first two in evenings, and the last one in two evenings, I should be [...]

As promised, I am finally getting around to writing about classic books. Little Dorrit is an 800 page book, so it takes time to get through it, and I did. I couldn't help but noticing that the melodrama increases mightily in Dickens as we near the end, as does the sentimentality. I didn't mind. I [...]

Oh my stars and garters! Winter will be coming to Iowa tonight with a super vengeance. Freezing rain, snow, and then blowing. Will we get to have our final tomorrow, and continue packing our office, or will we be marooned in Blairstown, eating beans from a tin? Stay tuned! *** I have finished my weekly [...]

I had an interesting conversation with Fory Ackerman when we were his guest liaisons for Icon in Iowa in 1998. Someone else had asked Fory about God, and it came out that he was a staunch atheist. I asked him about it a little more, and he suggested that his wife, Wendayne, had loved a [...]

For the most comprehensive round up of the damage of yesterday I've found, you might visit this entry from Stacy Whitman's Grimoire. If I were a pessimist, I would say that it is a very bad time indeed to be breaking into the industry, or to be a newly published writer. But I'm not a [...]

I know that I have a mixed audience for this journal, and that the lion's share of you are not at the promotion stage of your writing. However, there was a very good post at Jim Hines' journal speaking about some ethical guidelines about self-promotion that I rather liked. As a result, we link. This [...]

Well, cats and kitties, the cold kept me down for a day. There were some shaky moments this morning, but we hauled ourselves in for an INTENSIVE day at work. At work, I'm in one of those wait and see what wackiness is next. So, I'm trying to not think about any of those various [...]

We interrupt your life today because you are sick. Go back to bed. Do not collect $200. Well. I hope to see you all, with some lucidity in the house, tomorrow. Catherine

And there's another installment of my humorous horror Victorian vampire novel at Las Habladoras. And that's it for right now. Catherine

Snow. I have choice words for it over in my other journal. It's hear again, and I think all of us are flashbacking to last year's very bad winter, so it's making Iowans cranky anew. Let's hope for mild weather. I finished Mark Twain's Daughter, and one of my reader has already given me some [...]