Today was the first day of OryCon, our little local Portland con. I didn’t have programming today, but I went to Mark’s reading (well attended!) and panel, and sat for a while at the Cascade Writers table. Except speaking of readings, my reading (ha ha, funny that) turns out to be not in the program. […]

I had a marvelous birthday yesterday! I would have posted sooner but I’ve been flooded with like a hundred birthday wishes (thanks to Facebook!). Also busy. The day started with sleeping in and skipping yoga (what was I thinking, setting the alarm? I was so not going to yoga), and then Ken Scholes arrived to

Twas the night before Halloween And all through the ‘nest The goblins were prepping For tomorrow night’s guests It was ghostly and spooky Every room held a fright The skulls were all grinning This long autumn’s night And it will get worse: Witch broom and cold stone The terrible sound As the undead moan There

Today I was out for hours doing All The Errands. Well except for getting a flu shot; I tried, but the clinic I go to is not the clinic of getting flu shots, apparently. Except for last year, when it was. Also I spent lots of time organizing All The Logistics for next week, when

Hey, congratulations, Giants. 🙂 I had a few satisfying writing sessions over the weekend–I seem to be past both the “oh god it sucks I have no idea WHAT happens here” and the “o shit my fingers can’t even keep up with my brain!” phases, and have settled in a nice workmanlike pace. That’s awesome.

The obstruction broke loose today–I was in the shower and one line came to me, one little sentence from the main character in Nightcr– The Queen and The Tower, and I scurried to the computer (well, after I was dry and dressed and all that), and started writing, and the pages POURED out of me,

I found the beginning of the way through the fiction-wall of yesterday: a tiny flicker of light, as I let two characters sit quietly down together and talk to one another. As has happened before, one of them said something I didn’t know she was going to say…and some air came in. And I wrote

So this morning my brain offered up a whole change-of-direction for Hobgoblin, and I’m not even working on that book right now (it’s out with first readers). Okay, interesting, fine, think about it later. So then this evening, when I was working on The Queen and The Tower (which is due back at the publisher

It was when I realized that I had decided that Mark and I should be Substitute Innkeepers on Orcas Island for four months next year and that then a whole day went by before I remembered that, oh yeah, there’s this real estate thing, that I finally knew I had to face the fact that,

I got back into my edit of Nightcraft Mother Queen and Tower The Queen and The Tower today (well, after a tiny false start over the weekend before I got busy again)–it had been since before my trip northward since I’d managed to put any real time into the book. I’m pleased to say it’s