Sorry I missed the blog yesterday. Wound up taking a break from updating a bunch of ebooks (putting AWP Corp. style sheets into books that didn’t have it yet–the company is updating the look of everything, which will mean a better reading experience for all of you). When I did, …
Well, whatever virus or bacteria or mass hysteria I was fighting off seems to have fallen before the advancing armies of my epic immune system. That’s not to say the day was without frustration. My recording schedule’s gone screwy due to a neighbor reconstructing his vacation home. Over the winter …
So, it turns out my brain fog on day 22 wasn’t just brain fog. I was in the early stages of a rather nasty bug. I blame it on the tourists. I wound up sleeping about 19hours on day 23–I’m now writing this after I finally woke up, apparently in …
Today was an amazing day–gorgeous weather meant a beach walk with actual wading and swimming in the ocean, a rare treat this far north. On the downside, the heat was exhausting, and despite two long shifts at the keyboard, I found myself unable to produce anything intelligible, so I’m packing …
Please excuse the tardiness of the post. I wound up wrestling with plot threads last night and only hit a groove after I was very, very tired, and I essentially fell asleep at my keyboard. Now I’m awake, and bringing you the chronicle, time-shift style. The characters have hijacked the …
Oooh, boy, there’s nothing that’ll wear you out faster than emerging from a long emergency. The last few weeks, since I started blogging this, has been that kind of process. A few things happen when you get out from under a major, long-term stress load. The first is that your …
A hell of a storm hit today–almost literally out of the clear blue sky, at four PM, and it blew hard and drove horizontal rain till well near midnight. It’s that time of year when the weather joggles back and forth like a drunk trying to walk a line. Normally …
Ah, tax season, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Actually, that’s only half-jesting. There was a time when I not only couldn’t stand math, I looked on taxes with the kind of pallid terror that most people reserve for venomous snakes (I have personally never had …
I missed this blog post last night, so I’m doing two tonight. I got stuck down deep in the chapter I was writing and only tore myself away when I realized that I was misspelling every word–literally. The little red lines under the words were a clue–I leave the spell-checker …
Sundays are normally the downtime-day in the Sawyer house. We have a regular lunch with a bevy of other local writers, where the introverts in the group get their social time in and we all gab about publishing, craft, and the various antics the townsfolk have gotten up to recently. …