Survival 101!

I… went sailing over a meadow on a zip line spent two and a half hours standing in the rain while trying to tarp everything down taught people how to make Wint-o-Mints spark in the dark scared little girls with classic urban legends just spent four days at camp with 14 angsty teenage girls am sunburned and still smell like … Read More

I’m Obsessed.

I’m obsessed with a lot of things.  Challenges.  David Bowie.  High heels.  Junior Mints.  Keeping a high submissions count.  But now there’s something new thrown into the mix. The Wii. Oh, I know.  I rolled my eyes at the Wii for years because it looks too simplistic.  I’m into Playstation 2 RPGs!  I’ll flip a game over and do a … Read More

Go Tell It On The Mountain…to Strangers!

So I’m pretty excited bout that partial request.  I feel like dreams are being realized.  But who do you tell your good news to? My husband is really supportive, even though he doesn’t like a lot of my work.  He doesn’t like darkness or despair in any form, and he doesn’t care for the “black” in my black humor.  He … Read More

A Nibble. And Living Forever.

So I received a reply to my query letter yesterday.  It was all, “Thank you for sending your query…” and I was ready to hit the delete key with practiced finesse when something about it caught my eye.  I read the thing a little more carefully.  A partial?  She wanted to see a partial? Really?! And I was happy.  I’m … Read More

Outshine

I was so yippee-ki-yay about my Tweet the Meat going up yesterday that I failed to notice that my optimistic twitter-story went up on @outshine as well.  Check it out if you have a chance.  I rather like it.

Ten (Belated) Things About Me.

So a few months ago Jameson T. Caine tagged me in a meme where you shared ten true things about yourself.  I love to read memes like that, but I put this on the back burner and forgot about it.  Today’s the day! Ten True Things About Me 1.   I started seriously submitting stories in March of 2008.  I still have absolutely no … Read More

Tweet the Meat: Dad theme

My tweet went up tonight. You can check it out here.  I love reading these!   UPDATE: Cate’s absolutely right, and you can’t open the second one up from there.  Here’s another link.  http://twitter.com/tweetthemeat

I’m Only Ten Years Old

I had just poured myself a glass of Coke Zero, booted up my computer, and flexed my hands over the keyboard.  Could I recapture last night’s magic?  Could I finish this story tonight?  It’s been a busy day full of family and a comedy of errors.  Could I put all of that aside? Then the phone rang, and it was … Read More

Magic

You know that delicious feeling when everything in the cosmos has come together?  You read/watched/thought of something that catches your fancy, and suddenly the planets align in such a way that you slide easily into that writing groove?  It’s an out of body experience.  It’s magic.  I’m listening to Sufjan Stevens’ “Greetings from Michigan-The Great Lakes State” album, my son … Read More

Hello, I Belong to a Secret Organization…Eventually?

I wish that I was painting our kitchen table black right now, but I’m not.  I’m home alone with the kids and I just know that there will be black paint fingerprints everywhere unless I have somebody else to run interference.  So I’ll bounce to the second thing on my list…SFWA and HWA. I’m looking into joining either the Science … Read More