Things I have learned in the past 48 hours: Chamba incense smells really, *really* good and puts me in a creative mindset. Must keep constant supply on hand. It does not, however, give me willpower to do anything creative.  Must find incense that does this and has a scent that compliments cha . . . (More)

The following pictures are from my ABJD collection. For those of you who don't know (and I'm guessing that's most of you) ABJD stands for Asian ball-jointed doll. I've been quietly collecting them for a while now, but wanted to share some pictures from that collection. They are meant to be represent . . . (More)

Heretics, my novella from NaNo 2006 is next for my editorial chopping block.  Fixing it won't require nearly as much work as Mystic Nation, thank God.  (It also offers my far less chance to butcher it the way I accidentally butchered Mystic Nation's opening chapters during the editorial pr . . . (More)

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I've written myself right into the Sixth circle. A few weeks ago, I started an ambitious little project to write 1,000 words a day come hell or high water. You've been bombarded with updates on this journal. For the most part, it was a successful e . . . (More)

Words Behind:  0Project:  Triune Chapters 5-6 Monday:  1,453 words.Tuesday:  1,779 words on some random (but complete) short story.  That will probably lead into something larger.  But that's for another day.Wednesday:  1,528 words.Thursday: 0 words. Damn you, Wor . . . (More)

The two male leads of the story I'm trying to write just decided to have a nice little slugfest / territorial pissing contest less than 10 minutes after they met. This also happens to be the exact moment in the story that I really need them to get along. Every writer has their own way of knowing wh . . . (More)

  When designing a character, it's amazing how radically different the image in your head can be from the image you end up with. This portrait is proof of that. Maybe its because it's the first time I've ever painted a character without first doing a few sketches of how I wanted them to look . . . (More)

(title taken from author Sarah Monette's blog) A few random first lines of things I am contemplating writing. I'm trying to decide which would make the best project for NaNo 2007.   Ascension (Jinx sequel): Friday night, Mannon received a call from England telling him his father was dead. H . . . (More)

Words written (so far) today:  1,114 (on Heretic, Chapter Eight  Seven). That doesn't count all the rewriting of code for this blog and my NaNo blog.   Or the page-long and growing rant/entry that will soon be posted to this blog. I am victoriious!  For today anyway. And . . . (More)