In May of 1998, on my birthday, my father died. He was 76, but had been old all my life. Arthritis and a difficult life had combined to make him that way. About a year and a half earlier, he’d had a stroke, followed by a second one a few months later. The second one…
3:12 pm. Sigh. Apparently this is not a writing day. So much for the best-laid plans of mice and men. Oh, speaking of mice. A couple of days ago I went into our porch and heard a rustling sound. There is an open bag of cat food sitting in the corner as our six starving…
Chapter 23 of *False Perceptions* is complete at 3472 words, bringing the book’s total thus far to just over 60K. Still, I’m not quite meeting my word count goals of 2K per day with yesterday’s 1695 and today’s 1777. Are my goals unrealistic? Or is it just that I’m busier with other things than usual?…
Welcome to the folks from Faith in Fiction. You are most welcome here. Your ears must have been burning because I’ve been talking about you for a couple of days. I hope I only said nice things. 😀 And thanks, Mar, for pointing out the obvious on the broken link to FiF’s site. It now…
for the afternoon, anyway. In the morning, I got 828 words on *False Perceptions* to finish the chapter I started yesterday. We’re at the place in the book where momentum is building and it’s too late to take anything back Soon everything will careen out of control. It will be fun. 😀 And then Jim…
Honestly, I WAS asleep, but can’t seem to get back. Too many things are buzzing around in my head. I thought maybe I could make note of them while the valerian I just took kicks in. Let’s see. Faith in Fiction.You’ll notice both a blog and a forum by that name in my links, to…