I spent the afternoon and evening working on a novel outline. As I am wont to tell people, I need outlines. I flail otherwise. About the longest I can write without an outline is 4k. That 4k is about all I can keep in my head, like an object. Anything longer, and I need atContinue reading “On Putting Words on the Page”
Monthly Archives: November 2008
On the Week In Review
My grandmother is down for her second nap of the day. It’s not even 1:30 in the afternoon. She’s been sleeping more of late. She’s also been keeping odd hours, and her perception of light and dark seems to be non-existent. The new television remotes confuse her. There’s one for the television, and one forContinue reading “On the Week In Review”
On Remembering George Harrison
An e-mail yesterday reminded me that, seven years ago today, George Harrison passed away. I wrote to a friend of mine at the time: My favorite Beatle depends as much upon what day of the week it is as it does upon my mood for that day. Some days my Beatles-sense revolves wholly around John,Continue reading “On Remembering George Harrison”
On the Day After Thanksgiving
If you are Black Friday shopping, do be careful. 🙂 I’ve had to disable the “Let It Snow” plugin for the blog. That plug-in created gently falling snow. It was pretty. It was hypnotic. It also caused problems for people browsing with Internet Explorer. (And really, if you’re using IE, why don’t you upgrade toContinue reading “On the Day After Thanksgiving”
On Fireworks
For the neighbors, who live in the house vaguely across the street, every holiday is an occasion to set off fireworks. They had a dozen cars in their yard or on the street this afternoon. It’s not a large house they have, and I imagine they had the sort of loud, boisterous Thanksgiving feast thatContinue reading “On Fireworks”
On Fried Brain Mush
I wrote a lot at work on Monday. I wrote a lot yesterday. I wrote even more than that today. My brain feels like mush. That’s been fried. Fortunately, tomorrow I can sleep in. Take a nap, even. I might even write the four-hundred word article on a Stephen King novel I’ve been assigned. ThatContinue reading “On Fried Brain Mush”
On Forty Random Questions
A bunch of odd questions, taken from Keith:
On Fun With Slate
I love reading Slate. It’s an online magazine with eclectic content. Politics to video games, pop music to the ethics of cloning, columnists from Christopher Hitchens to Timothy Noah, Slate has insight into almost everything. Here are my two finds of today. First, a 45-minute audio discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. OneContinue reading “On Fun With Slate”
On Looking Ahead
Today at work I found myself looking at things coming in May. It’s not even Thanksgiving. And I’m already dealing with May. Somehow, living in the moment means planning to live in the moment months hence. I mean, I’m already thinking ahead to my annual viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. And then theContinue reading “On Looking Ahead”
On Watching Old Television
Like millions of Americans, come February I’m going to need a digital converter box to watch television when the analog signals go silent. Last spring I submitted a request for a coupon for the box, and on Memorial Day I went out to Best Buy and bought one, hooked it up, and entered the digitalContinue reading “On Watching Old Television”