Yesterday, eleika   asked me how my month-long sojourn to Hospital-Land affected my writing schedule (particularly because my previous posting had been about overly-aggressive goal-setting for writing.)  I figured I'd take a few pixels to answer, today. In my prior job, if I needed to take time off to care for a relative, I'd let my boss know as soon as I became aware of the need.  I'd schedule...

Word count: 6753 | Since last entry: 6753 Fourth of July already!? Went to the Iron Springs Writers Retreat on the Washington coast, where I was "writer guru" along with jaylake . Very strange for me to be Big Name Writer Guy. In addition to leading two critique sessions I also gave two informal talks, one on plotting and one on using sets and props to build character and display emotion...

Right. There's only one way to stop myself from obsessively researching this story and force myself to begin drafting the damn thing. I am kidnapping myself and squirreling myself away in an undisclosed location without access to the Internet or any other research materials. Well, not really. But almost. The fact is that I am, along with jaylake , "Writer Guru" at the Iron Springs Writers'...

Escapement by Jay Lake. I stopped angel's hearts, tore Queens from their thrones, & kings, with my pocket watch. This comes next in jaylake 's series that started with Mainspring , & I really like it. Second books-- I'm turning out to like second books from Tor a lot lately, like Queen of Candesce . This novel is three yarns, three character threads, some of them minor characters...

Why is it that even though I go to bed later on a non-school night, I still am awake earlier than on a schoolday? As much as I tried, I didn't sleep in very well, after a late night with jonathanstrahan , and vodkaandlime . Yesterday afternoon the 2010 committee kindly let us tag along to a venue tour. Hopefully we didn't get in the way too much but you might have seen some of the...

And still the cold continues to plague me. My eyes feel like they are vibrating in my skull and reading and writing are a chore. Seriously a chore and it's driving me nuts. I have work to do and yet all i want to do is sleep. yesterday went to the boy's baseball game and hit a skunk. I now have skunk truck. On the other hand, weasels have infested a friend's house. Apparently they are related to minks...

I went to work. It was dull, but we actually made some money so I could justify my presence there. Hooray. Then I came home and signed up to be typed for bone marrow donation: The Marrowthon Between June 8-22 the first 46,000 volunteers can sign up to be a bone marrow donor for free, ONLINE. I'm supposed to get a testing kit or whatever in the mail in a few days. I just have to swab my mouth and...

Read here http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1826213.html?view=12870309#t12870309 Any one have a Cancer DR in the UK or where ever with some cure are dumb ass US medical system is too stupid to use?

So awhile back I mentioned that I had written a steampunk story and that it would be out in the nebulous land known as "soon." Well, soon is today! The story is "The Anachronist's Cookbook," and it's part of Steampunk Tales Vol. I, which is a downloadable iPhone/iPod Touch app that you can buy here. It's gorgeously designed, the first made-for-iPhone downloadable anthology. (Other formats are hopefully...

Happy birthday, jaylake !