I have very *very* silly friends. I posted on Twitter that I’d read two books over the weekend. Carl said, “Isn’t *writing* two books over the weekend more your usual thing?” I claimed I’d never written *two* books over a weekend. I checked Twitter this morning to find the following: @BryantD Did you hear? @ce_murphy just finished two manuscripts in one weekend, while making oreos and stringing beads? @othergretchen Did you hear? @ce_murphy just finished twelve manuscripts on one weekend, while stringing Oreos like beads? @carlrigney I heard @ce_murphy was…
Shao Lin cows
Ted and I went for a walk this morning, and during the walk I said there were a lot of signs of cows being on the path (namely cow flop all over the place), but I’d never /seen/ one, and there were very few places which seemed convenient, even for a none too smart cow, to get from the fields to the path. It all led to a discussion of them being ninja cows and then ultimately decided they were perhaps Shao Lin cows. We were out this afternoon, on…
catching up
This is a post of things that are totally unrelated to each other. Just so you know. I haven’t been swimming. My shoulder’s doing better, by and large (though I think I spent too much time knitting last night, or possibly yesterday’s brief spate with free weights should have been done with the lighter weights, because it’s faintly achy today), and I’d been thinking that okay, I really should get back to the pool and that I could give it one more week’s rest and start after we got back…
Damn, I’m good.
I’ve just gotten the first pencils for TAKE A CHANCE: CHANCES ARE, which will be the second graphic novel, assuming we manage to sell it. And I gotta say, damn, I’m good. Not because I’m specifically so cool, but because I’ve found some really incredibly talented people to work with, and it’s exciting and amazing. So pre-order the first one so we have a better chance of selling the second! :) Speaking of Chance, it looks fairly probable that we’ve settled on a cover for it. This could still change,…
nibs & nobs
I am hugely relieved to have put the short story off until the end of the month. I’ve got almost 10K written on it, but it’s just not gelling yet, and there’s a long way to go before it’s done. I’ve printed it out and will be poking at the manuscript for the next few days, but in the meantime I’ve also begun the sixth Walker Papers novel*, tentatively titled RATTLESNAKE DANCES and henceforth referred to as RD. 1200 words done, 108,800 to go. :) (Except this is just the…