Writer Tamago

Seven hundred words, up hill all the way. I'm in the heavy revision zone. I'm sure that I'll buff it up in the rewrite. I really miss the release time I had during the HH:PW writing. You'd have a few hours, rather than an hour at the end of a long day. Yeah, yeah. Whine, [...]

Somehow I missed it when it came out in March, 2009, but here's a link to that wig article I wrote for Ani-Coz last year. The one you want to download is volume 3, issue 2. There's a little nonfiction for you, then. In case you want to design your own hair. Catherine

I've been thinking about the future. Currently, I am receiving laudits from the college because of all the growth and new curriculum in the ELA program. They've let me have new and exciting software for the language lab. They've expanded our number of sections, and I'm hiring like mad. All is well in the ELA [...]

Courtesy of Jay Lake's Link Salad, I give you a very good journal entry by Caren Johnson on word count. I have a few things to say about this, but I'll keep it concise, because, you know, word count. 1. Do what they tell you for the first book. You can be all special later, [...]

Rather than writing a post about my feelings and this issue, I'm going to do something fairly educational. I'm going to recommend some books which I have taught over the years that are from authors whose background is not mine. Sometimes the authors handle the issues of racism seriously, and sometimes humorously. Occasionally they do [...]

Here's this week's Blood is Thicker than Water!

Here' today's interesting post: a letter concerning recent events from the Carl Brandon Society. Read it, think about it, reflect upon it. Papers are 2-3 pages, and are due Friday. *** In case you didn't know, you should also be aware that it is International Blog against Racism Week. How do you participate? 1. Announce [...]

Finally! Work continues to be vicious (you'd think I had an actual job or something!), but I managed to squeak in some writing this evening. I finished the King of Faeries oatmeal scene, which isn't as kinky as it sounds, and started the new Sigfried meets minion of Quartz scene. Tomorrow, I have another writing [...]

I don't have a special spin on Harlan Ellison joining an internet fray, nor do I have a side to take on anything. What I do have is a sort of surprised pause, when, in the course of reading about an issue that I had no plan to comment on, someone on a message board [...]

Bryon and I have returned from the Decorah Nordic Fest. I'd like to do a shout out to fellow Viable Pardiser Matt Hughes and his wife Steph for being kind enough to show us around a little bit, and talk writing. Matt gave Bryon and I a great tour of Luther College on Friday, and [...]