by CJ | Sep 30, 2016 | Journal
bees have feelings too…
by CJ | Sep 24, 2016 | Journal
ocean on Pluto?
by CJ | Sep 20, 2016 | Journal
…who loves to stand up and claw at the images on my telly… Or drive me berserk wanting food, grabbing my ankle, howling at me as I get up for a cup of coffee— I tell you, devising something to keep a half-Bengal busy is a challenge. Smart. Very. I...
by CJ | Sep 16, 2016 | Journal
Sincerely, it feels great except for the resultant headache. Four deadening shots and a major cleanup, and I spent yesterday face down in the bean dip, and today am energy-short and headachy, but I’m actually looking forward to Oct 3, when we get the other side....
by CJ | Sep 14, 2016 | Journal
In a bit of mental attic rearranging as I prepare to enter the Alliance-Union universe for a new book—I decided—why not do a piece for Closed Circle that encapsulates the history behind it. It’s a short story, but sort of a fictional history sort of...
by CJ | Sep 10, 2016 | Journal
Got it! Jane is now doing a continuity read. I’m consulting notes on our next project. I have a notebook which is one of those ‘what would you grab if there were a fire?’ sort of items, which went missing—it’s my notes. Names, places,...
by CJ | Sep 6, 2016 | Journal
I outline, not your typical school outline, but sometimes bits and pieces of conversation, events, notes, etc, which I erase as I move along, so the total word count both shrinks and expands unpredictibly, sometimes so that even I don’t have a real sense where I...
by CJ | Sep 1, 2016 | Journal
We had breakfast at the waffle place, crashed for an hour, and now Jane is making my birthday present, a ‘happy coat’, or short kimono-type wrap, because the fan in my working space is pretty energetic, and I’d be comfy if I had a light wrap. So that...