And yet, I post pictures of hummingbirds now. Is it a bad sign when I show a friend pictures of wildlife, and their first question is, “Tony. What did you do to it?” I promise. No harm has come to the hummingbird in these pictures. They’re too damn fast. No need to critique my horrible
This weekend was especially good, because I didn’t get any rejections. I added some wordage to my novel. I’m not totally sure what the increase is, but you can see the total above. It’s a bit hot today. I’m sitting here in my shorts, drinking a beer, and trying to convince myself that I should
Hi again. I know. I don’t post for months, and now, I post three times a day. Leave it to me to overdo it. But I have something important to tell you. I swear. No, I didn’t accidentally eat a poisonous spider. That was last week. And besides, fool me once, shame on the spider,
I think today, I found my way into the groove. Like the needle on a record. Groovy, man. True, what I wrote today only amounts to a bit over my daily 1,000 word goal. But I felt it today. I felt the story get under my skin, and I know that over the next few
When asked if he gets writer’s block, Kevin Smith responded No, I get Writer’s Laze. This, he explained, is basically when he’d rather be watching TV than writing. Well, I’ve got the Laze. In the past three days, I have added less than 1,000 words to the novel, as you can see above on my
So, I had a rejection today from a new magazine called Noctem Aeternus They said it was well received, but not a sale. Though I’m pretty sure it was a form reject. Check out the site. The mag is a free PDF, so it’s worth checking out. Plus, they pay 10 cents a word, so
With great thanks to Andrea, I now have a cool word tracker. Don’t see it? Then you must need glasses. It comes with a mood-indicator as well as word-count. I rather like it (as does Steve). So, if you’ve been following, I have added a little over 1,00 words since yesterday. Not too bad, but
