I ordered myself a $50 treat (a year’s supply of tea) with my “sorry we got caught ripping you off for years, here’s a sliver of your money back” class action settlement. It was delivered somewhere else, which I know because I was doing yardwork that whole day, had my eye out for the truck […]
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage
I am having a saga surrounding a publishing project unrelated to this one. The store I expected to be delayed because my account wasn’t approved until 2 days after I’d uploaded everywhere else had the book live 2 hours after I was able to log in[efn_note]And an hour of that was me having to reformat
I’ve long known my resting murder face has a lot to do with how I have to hold my jaw so I don’t constantly clench/grind my teeth, but I’ve only recently realized how much energy suppressing that consumes. So many little physical things are a constant battery drain. If somebody invented a bite guard that
There sure have been a lot of opportunities lately to practice keeping my eyes on my own paper. Like most people, I’ll have a kneejerk reaction to an Inflammatory Thing, but if I take two minutes to think about it rather than responding immediately, I frequently come to a realization the Inflammatory Thing has no
(For real this time. ‘Scuse the premature posting way back when, if you caught it in the 20 seconds it took me to frantically revert to Draft status. When you’re chronically sleep deprived, “Preview” and “Publish” are way too close together.) I’ve set a goal of writing one short story per month, both to build
I’m getting impatient and almost added the book description to the Fantasy page. It is… not ready, to put it mildly. I did stick it at the top of the manuscript doc, though, so I have to look at it at least briefly every day upon opening and can noodle with it as inspidesperation[efn_note]in·spi·des·per·a·tion noun
Today I learned “complacent” doesn’t mean what I thought it meant, and though I’m going to blame it on near-universal misuse of the word when people actually mean “complaisant,” I’m painfully embarrassed about every time I’ve used it incorrectly. I knew “complaisant” was a word, but I can’t remember seeing it in… 30 years? And while
Somebody asked me a while ago why I’m not worried about revealing the whole story to potential readers by doing these posts. I just don’t think “they went to a location and performed an unspecified task” is all that spoilery? In fact, I think anyone who came in search of juicy clues would be peeved
Feeling really good without the voices of millions screaming for attention. Who knew? (I did, because I’m an old who didn’t even have internet in the house until I was 22 and alert enough to track the long-term trajectory. Let’s just say it’s not a coincidence Grave Oversight‘s villain is using it as a tool