I have too many pending projects. I can’t figure out what to work on. Woe! WOE! Perhaps I’ll list them and throw a dart. :) – Billy Holliday short story – Suzanne Quinley short story – Bryant’s short story – other Walker Papers short story – Daisani AFTERMATH story – another AFTERMATH story – HEAVEN CAN WAIT proposal – LEGION chapter – retold Alaskan origin story …ok, the (or a) problem here is I’m nominally finishing all of that this month. Even if I drop HEAVEN CAN WAIT out of…
not actually possible
It is not actually possible to do all the projects I want to do. Certainly not all at once, even if my enthusiasm for them flares and makes me go want to do it RIGHT NOW. Of course, the impulse right now is to take the lemon curd I’m making and make lemon bar cheesecakes! and lemon cheesecake squares! and lemon gingersnap meringues! All of which I could probably do, in fact. And then I’d eat them all and be … I can’t even make a fat-face emoticon. :)
some things make a post
The e-book pricing conversation showed a fair amount of support for “mass market paperback price minus 10-20%”, which is pretty interesting. Thank you all for the contributions–coming from a position where I’m looking at doing a bit of self-publishing, it’s really terrific to get that feedback from, well, potential customers, to be blunt about it. :) In other news, I’m teaching a writing course (with an emphasis on fantasy fiction, of course, but equally of course I think any writing course can be generally applied if anything sensible is said…
Birthday boy!
A few days ago we were reading a Christmas book, and I said to Young Indiana, “Your birthday is in a few days. A birthday is kind of like Christmas.” Today, amidst all the excitement, he was shouting, “Birthday birthday CHRISTMAS!” We think he’s got the idea. :) Two Years Old
Avengers!
Picoreview: Go see it go see it go see it RIGHT NOW WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR GO ALREADY Less of a picoreview: Look, I went in as Extremely Skeptical You Must Convince Me That Joss Is Not About To Make “Widow The Avengers Slayer” Lass. I do not believe I remembered past the opening sequence that I was supposed to be being skeptical or convinced. It’s a 2.5 hour movie that feels like a 90 minute movie. The pacing is awesome. The dialogue is great and not, thank god,…