things catie wants

Things Catie wants for Christmas, not so much a hint as a list for my own self so that when people start asking me, I’ll know: the Rhodochrosite and Jasper journals, and the Charoite journal… I have the others. highlander season 3, which’ll be out in November-ish the best of highlander x-men: evolution season 1 collection and season 2 collection if they’ve put one out Coraline by Neil Gaiman Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly (only out in hardback) Sunshine by Robin McKinley (only out in hardback) The Boy…

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miles and words

miles to Rivendell: 205 ytd miles swum: 24 ytd wordcount: 201,800

about writing

So yesterday I downloaded Sonar, which is a pretty cool piece of manuscript tracking software. It’s very simple; it has who you sent what to and when, and keeps track of whether you got a response or not. It’s sort of for short stories, not manuscripts — there’s not really an option to say ‘Got a response, sent complete ms in’ and keep it all in one ticket, but that’s ok. It’s nifty, is the point. And now I’ve got this tidy little list of what’s been sent out to…

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on doing enough

So yesterday I downloaded Sonar, which is a pretty cool piece of manuscript tracking software. It’s very simple; it has who you sent what to and when, and keeps track of whether you got a response or not. It’s sort of for short stories, not manuscripts — there’s not really an option to say ‘Got a response, sent complete ms in’ and keep it all in one ticket, but that’s ok. It’s nifty, is the point. And now I’ve got this tidy little list of what’s been sent out to…

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