by CJ | Sep 7, 2009 | Journal
I’ve spent the last few days outlining to the end (after remembering what the end is, and relocating it); and simultaneously recovering the blown-up 72 generation, 40,000 person genealogy file, bit by painful bit… It’s funny. So much of the database...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2009 | Journal
Writing for Fun and Profit I talk about outlining a book, and it immediately conjures images of Mr. Smith’s English 101. Not so. A book outline is ‘more like guidelines,’ and in response to a question, I actually created an outline for the Great...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2009 | Journal
Writing for Fun and Profit I talk about outlining a book, and it immediately conjures images of Mr. Smith’s English 101. Not so. A book outline is ‘more like guidelines,’ and in response to a question, I actually created an outline for the Great...
by CJ | Aug 12, 2009 | Journal
I’m going back to old habits, trying to gather momentum, and so far so good, as the guy said, walking the plank… It’s too wet to go into the garden this morning. We’ve kept the path bare earth and this has a certain drawback. We can’t...
by CJ | Aug 11, 2009 | Journal
Writers are delicate creatures. I can’t work well when taking antibiotics, when stressed, when on painkillers, etc. And the load of stress is slowly easing. The pond is so much help in this I can’t express—just the sound of the water, our funny...
by CJ | Aug 11, 2009 | Journal
Writers are delicate creatures. I can’t work well when taking antibiotics, when stressed, when on painkillers, etc. And the load of stress is slowly easing. The pond is so much help in this I can’t express—just the sound of the water, our funny...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2009 | Journal
The fish tank lights are working. The fish are fine. I got a little work done. Tomorrow I’m planning to really bear down and get going. We’ve had glorious weather: 72 to 85 degrees daytime, in August, no less. I went out and watered everything, just...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2009 | Journal
The fish tank lights are working. The fish are fine. I got a little work done. Tomorrow I’m planning to really bear down and get going. We’ve had glorious weather: 72 to 85 degrees daytime, in August, no less. I went out and watered everything, just...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2009 | Journal
I got a little work done this morning. We went out shopping for hose washers (yep) so we don’t have a leak in the back yard. But a little after that I came down with a rare case of the hungries…I mean, if I didn’t get food in the next fifteen...