I don’t know about anyone else, but my sleep patterns have turned to utter chaos these last three weeks. One night I might have bifurcated sleep (sleep, significant break, sleep), the next restless near-insomnia, and the next ten solid hours of sleeping like the dead. That, at least, has been my pattern over these lastContinue reading “Wrapping Up the Catalog Copy”
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On Customers and Kindness
I was, last night, sitting on a bench at the local mall. Christmas music played on the PA system. There were decorations strung here and there. It didn’t feel Christmassy. The reason was simple. This mall was deserted. No customers. It’s hard to feel the Christmas spirit without the throngs of customers, the blaring ofContinue reading “On Customers and Kindness”
On Unusable Ideas
It happens to every writer. They get an idea, a really cool idea, an idea that consumes their world for days on end… Only it’s an idea that they can’t possibly use. There’s an idea, an idea that’s been nagging at me for months. I can’t use it. For that matter, no one can. TheContinue reading “On Unusable Ideas”