Recent Posts Tagged With 'who needs sleep'

• It should be illegal to wake up this early.

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 07:30 in writing blather, on writing, books!, who needs sleep, bad writer no biscuit, waking magic

  Finished the rewrite a few days ago (yes, in between reading the Dictionary of Phrase & Fable; the etymology involved is entrancing). From 100k down to 82k; not a bad shave. I’m letting it sit for at least a week; I need a bit of distance fro...

• Snozzberries taste like wha?

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 11:28 in life in general, writing blather, querying, blah blah blah, on writing, who needs sleep, bad writer no biscuit, shadow's breath, shadow's voice, what the ass?

  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...

• Might just be a milestone.

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 06:19 in agents, writing blather, querying, on writing, who needs sleep, agents & querying, esquire contest, bad writer no biscuit

  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.

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 10:09 in pet peeves, writing blather, on writing, the muse, on the shelf, who needs sleep, esquire contest, bad writer no biscuit

  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 ...