Gazelles On Crack

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

Terry Pratchett, one of my favorite authors, has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers.
Fortunately he hasn’t yet forgotten his sense of humor (or, well, really anything yet) and said,
I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think.
I know it’s [...]

I love words. My officemate and I have approximately 17 billion* magnetized words on our file cabinets. We use them to write pretentious haikus.
Words, are not language, but the conduit for language. They allow us to express ourselves: our hopes and dreams and fears.
Words are powerful, but too often misused. [...]

Do you ever see someone that you are absolutely 100% positive is a serial killer? Hmmm…that never happens to you?
Apparently, I’ve been spending too much time on crime library again. But, the other day, I was walking home from work (yes, my car is fine, no there’s nothing wrong, I just like walking sometimes), [...]

I can’t believe it’s May already. I am moving in three months. Three months from right now, I will be on the last day of my drive to my new home in Portland. Holy crap that’s scary.
I had a decent weekend. Ren Faire on Saturday. It was much fun but we spent waaaaay too much [...]

I just finished my book. All edits are finished. I just need to take my written edits & put them in the electronic copy. That’s only a couple hours of work.
Seriously people. I wrote a book, and it doesn’t completely suck.
Holy shit.

I worked really really hard yesterday, polishing up 2nd draft of my book, so that I could read through it this week, make a few last, minor adjustments, and then farm it out.
I had it open just now (it helps me be more productive at work, so shut up!), and noticed that on page five [...]