I have a confession to make. I think I’m bi-urban. Or maybe it’s just urban-curious. And it isn’t Seattle. I *love* Seattle. I love my life here, my life style, everything. But it isn’t enough. It isn’t you. It’s me. I need more. And just one city doesn’t do it for me. Poly-urban? It’s official. […]
I have a new grand niece! She was born last night at 11:55 PM. Both mother and baby are doing fine. Also, my other niece graduated this weekend from Emery-Riddle Aeronautic University, with a Bachelor’s in Aeronautical Science. I am immensely proud of her.
Tonight I went to see The BQE, Sufjan Stevens’ film about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It’s a pretty experimental film. I think I would have liked it more if I commuted on the BQE, if I knew more about it. This isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy the film. I actually did. But that was
Finished chapter nine today. Handwriting it, that is. Still have to type up these three chapters (7, 8, 9.) I’m disappointed with myself, and how far behind schedule I am. I just didn’t write a lot in August. (To be fair, I did work for the day job almost every weekend in August, and quite
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Finally back from MN. Was there for a week visiting family. Finished typing up chapters 5&6, and wrote the first half of chapter 7. I had to figure out the “something brilliant happens here” for chapter 7 before I could start it. My sister-in-law gave me a wonderful kernel of an idea, that blossomed nicely
I didn’t learn to drink coffee until I was in my 30s. Maria, the woman I stayed with in Hungary, introduced me to good coffee. Of course I started out liking a little bit of coffee with my cream and sugar, and I drank it that way for years. When I started worrying about the
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So I didn’t make it to the Clarion West party tonight. Instead, I ended up writing about 1500 words of the first scene of chapter three. I’m pleased with it.
I’ve been having some difficulties with chapter six. Finally I realized this evening that the scene I was about to start writing, for the middle of chapter six, should actually be the end of chapter nine, according to my outline. So this evening I spent a lot of time thinking about the story arc of
I’ve never really done this before, but I thought I’d try a little snippet from what I wrote today. NOT FINAL EDIT — probably too much description at this point. My first draft is always shit.