I’ve arrived in NYC and am sitting comfortably on the couch in Astoria, waiting for Jason to finish preparing the Maragaritas. The Acela left on time and got into New York on time. I sat in the quiet car and read for a little while, slept for a little while, and then wrote section 8…
I was up a little earlier than usual this morning because I had to take a taxi to the metro station. You’re not supposed to park there overnight. I called for a taxi at 5:55 AM and was told the taxi would be there in 20 minutes. At 6:30 AM, the taxi finally showed up.…
I’m all packed and ready for the trip to NYC tomorrow. I’m getting up 15 minutes earlier than usual so that I can make sure that everything around the house is set. Also I have to take a taxi to the metro station tomorrow and I need to leave time for that. I’m well over…
I really don’t know what’s wrong with me. I was asked by two people today if I’ve started looking for a house yet. I haven’t. I wasn’t planning to start the search until around my birthday. The thing is (and there has got to be something wrong with me), the closer I get to the…
I wrote part 8 of “The Graveyard Shift” tonight, about 1,100 words in 50 minutes or so. This was good because part 7 is about the halfway point of the story and I was not sure going into that section exactly what was going to happen. (I always know how the story is going to…
Temperatures reached almost 65 here in the Metro DC areas today. Just about all of the remaining snow has melted. When I got home from work, I didn’t even need a jacket. It smelled like spring out.
I had set aside an hour to write and an hour to read and review fiction in the mags, but skipped it tonight because I was overly eager to finish The Passage of the Light (which I did) and start on It’s Superman! (which I have). I feel kind of bad about this, but it’s…
I got home from work this afternoon and had a package from Amazon that contained the book I ordered over the weekend, It’s Superman: A Novel by Tom De Haven. I’m very excited about reading this book, perhaps because I’m a fan of the superman lore. It’s a nice thick book, 400+ pages long, probably…
So I had this dream last night that I was committed to an asylum (why anyone should do such a thing is beyond me). As it turned out, the institute into which I was committed was a Walmart. I spent the entire dream wondering if I was crazy and also scampering on my hands and…
In case any non-writers out there have ever wondered what a rejection slip looks like, here is a link to the best rejection slip I ever received (from Asimov’s last April 2005): See the rejection slip