Drood: A Novel by Dan Simmons
It's been a busy morning of meetings that directly affect my future in the workplace at Kirkwood. Many of my fellow writers are rightly excited about when they have writing news that is good, but they can't divulge it. Similarly, I'm sitting on top of work news that I can't talk about officially until Friday, [...]
...or rather, Seanan McGuire on she's gotta be her. Go read this link. I think it's very inspiring and helpful. And I gotta be writing, so I go now... Catherine
It's been the usual stuff after returning from a conference, but I think I have the office under control. Except for phone calls, I've managed to get caught up from my vacation. Phone calls are next if time remains after writing this little ditty. After Thursday, I will know officially what's happening with my position [...]
In a rented Toyota Yaris, a colleague and I wended our way into the heart of Illinois. The flat landscape lulled us to conversational stupefication with peaks of conversational brilliance. The pattern was much like that of a heart monitor. Then, we were in Springfield. Lincoln is everywhere! On the walls? Lincoln. Big brass statue [...]
Phone calls, students, and instructors have used up my extrovert battery today. Hoping the adrenaline will push me through the teaching. Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday this journal will be kind of quiet. I'll be putting on my professor hat and heading to Springfield, Il for an international ed conference. I'll be taking the troll story [...]
Troll novel=4 chapters ready to rumble. 1/3 of the way into chapter 5. Papers to check and bills to pay tonight. I'd like to get back to it. We'll see. *** Chew on this very interesting rumination from Sean Craven, fellow VP XIII alum. Lots of great stuff in here. Catherine
Justine Larbalestier's great link about the ongoing philosophical considerations between being a writer and being an author. I like her dichotomy very much. What do you think being a writer is? Being an author is? Some of my thoughts are in my response to Justine's post. Catherine
Tonight I cut two scenes. They were DULL, and things are much more interesting if I don't blurt the obvious and/or the stereotypical at you. I made two scenes more ambiguous and precise at the same time. Then I moved a scene from chapter six into chapter four that should result in wonderful misunderstandings. Chapter [...]
My confession: I was not a virtuous writer this weekend. Bryon and I had date day Saturday. And yesterday, the errands had stacked up. So I didn't do it. I'm guessing that it's because the brain needed a little time to process some ideas. Like how to hide some information from all of you that [...]
If you type Scandinavia and swords into a search engine, you get...Vikings! No surprise there. Honestly, though, I could use some weapons references for Norway (Scandinavia in general is also fine) from the 12th to 17th centuries, to see if anything is particularly interesting. If you know of any books of this type, weigh in. [...]
