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You could call this my "professional" blog - where I write about being a journalist, struggling to become a novelist, and at times the issues of being a gay author writing (sometimes) gay-themed fiction. I can't promise I'll always sta
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Finding North.
Compasses exist for one purpose: finding magnetic north, so we know where we are and where we’re going in relation to the rest of the world. The compass metaphor has always had easy parallels in life, love, a dozen other aspects of our existen...
Snozzberries taste like wha?
Life lesson: If you’re too tired to do something right, all the sworn avowals in the world don’t matter a damn when you just have to redo it the next day after gaping in horror at the rotten fruits of your own labor. Yesterday I had a whi...
Dear technology: don’t be hatin’, yo.
Last night Hikaru got to deal with one of the fun perks of living with a writer: tolerating said writer’s late-night spaz-fits as he hops in and out of bed, running to the computer over and over again to jot down a few inspired lines of ‘...
That time of the year again.
Yep, shaved him again. We keep bursting into giggles every time we see him. We’re pretty much officially in the new place now. It’s still made of awesome. There’s a loose wire on the hot water heater, but that’s so, so mino...
Don’t try this at home.
Problem is about halfway solved, and should be 99% gone by the end of the weekend. Thanks to everyone who offered feedback and advice. You were immeasurably helpful. Now back to packing. ~groans~ The movers will be here in four hours....
Green as can be.
Hikaru and I are looking into adopting an adult cat from the local no-kill shelter; the more cats they find homes for, the more room they have to take animals from the kill shelters so they won’t be euthanized. There are three that are just lu...
Vagaries.
The writing and publishing industry is an odd one. It’s full of fluctuations, many triumphs, and even more disappointments. The most important thing to remember when dealing with disappointment, though? Never let it make you bitter. No matter...
Might just be a milestone.
I’m almost done with “An Insurrection.” I figure I need about an hour of unbroken time after work to wrap up the last 500-odd words of it, filling in the little gaps I left during last night’s flurry to get the basic chain of...
Insurrection.
Despite my previous growling on the subject, I may be willing to buy into the personification of a muse if only because mine, if he or she exists, is a contrary little cow who doesn’t like to let me sleep. I’ve been turning over a short ...
