Category Archives: movies

I failed the test, didn’t I?

It’s been a productive writing week. I submitted one story last weekend, a substantial rewrite of an existing manuscript. Then I wrote and revised and submitted another story during the week. Finally, today I did a rewrite of a third … Continue reading

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Give me a number. Thirteen.

Something you don’t ever want to hear a doctor say: “I’m just going to remove the top few layers of cells.” Not when the doctor is an optometrist and it’s a few layers of cells from the surface of your … Continue reading

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Movies, movies, movies

On this long weekend, we are pretty much camping in, cooking meals, working in the daytime and watching movies in the evenings. No Black Fridays or Saturdays for us. Couldn’t catch us dead within three miles of a shopping mall … Continue reading

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Adventures in Modern Recording

I got my new iPod rebuilt this weekend. Took a while to restore over 6000 songs and make sure the album graphics were there, too. I know I could have skipped that step but I figured if I was going … Continue reading

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Is this your monster?

For a while last night I wondered if we had goofed and that the trick-or-treaters had been out the night before. When I was young, living in eastern Canada, if Halloween was on a Sunday, trick-or-treating was done on Saturday … Continue reading

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My hobby is silence

Tutto su Stephen King should be available tomorrow. My first work to be translated into Italian, to the best of my knowledge. I finished Djibouti by Elmore Leonard this weekend. I enjoyed the book overall, though there was one decision … Continue reading

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The Two Georges

I finished The Reversal by Michael Connelly yesterday. Full review to come. Connelly makes some interesting decisions about how to resolve—or not resolve—certain vital aspects of the novel that lead me to believe he has a sequel planned. Did a … Continue reading

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The new hot profession: Cleaner

I think I have the short ( now shorter) story ready to submit in the morning. It ended up at 5300 words. I think I might add a few back in and give it one last read-through. Then it’s on … Continue reading

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Killers

Houston Texans not so impressive today. I started watching at halftime, when it was 10-3, and it’s been downhill since. I’m trying to trim an old urban fantasy short story that has always been nearly 10,000 words long down enough … Continue reading

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