Journal Entries for 2008
Journal Entries for 2007
Journal Entries for 2006
Journal Entries for 2005
Journal Entries for 2004
Journal Entries for 2003
Journal Entries for 2002
01: Goals for 2005 (7 comments)
03: GREAT Review of Gunning for the Buddha (Updated) (13 comments)
06: Time for just a handful of links today (0 comments)
07: Being Creative and a Return to Novel-Blogging (4 comments)
13: Cool Writer Types (7 comments)
13: Juggling (6 comments)
17: Temporarily Inspired (2 comments)
18: Chapter One, I will own you! (5 comments)
18: Books and Stories and Auctions and Stuff (2 comments)
19: Novel Workshop notes (belated) (16 comments)
20: One inch of snow = One city gridlocked (9 comments)
21: "I opened his eyes as wide as he could..." (3 comments)
22: I <3 Ken Burns! (Well, his work, that is) (5 comments)
24: Not bad for a Monday (14 comments)
26: Tales of the Tape (0 comments)
27: Get your limited signed editions here... (4 comments)
29: Links and Ice, Ice and Links (6 comments)
31: Schedule Schmedule... And a review! (7 comments)
31: Playing around with Banners (2 comments)
February
01: More reviews! (6 comments)
01: Seven-Week Skills (14 comments)
03: They thought it couldn't be done... (4 comments)
04: On my way to the Second Empire... (10 comments)
07: Flashback to the Weekend -- Updated with links to REAL photos (0 comments)
07: Books Available, Finally! (8 comments)
11: Roll on over, son! (now with photos!) (6 comments)
12: Research -- the neverending quest (Or, Darn You, Google!) (3 comments)
14: Success (Or, Thank You, Google!) -- UPDATED (5 comments)
15: Bestseller! (For a limited time only) (12 comments)
16: Stuffy noses and rushed writing (0 comments)
17: Free at last! (9 comments)
18: The kid likes grunge rock (4 comments)
22: Bad hops, licorice, and tobacco juice (7 comments)
23: Here we go again (5 comments)
25: A blindingly chartreuse Friday (1 comments)
26: More writing stuff (4 comments)
27: Internationalisted (10 comments)
28: Storied. (9 comments)
March
03: "I'm the king, nyah-nyah!" (6 comments)
14: Three months already (with obligatory photos) (11 comments)
14: Review(s) coming soon! (9 comments)
17: Stress? We got it for you right here. (14 comments)
19: Homemaker for a Day (7 comments)
21: Monday-Morning Decisions... (3 comments)
22: 55 Pages and 190 Miles Later... (11 comments)
24: Not a Dozen After All (6 comments)
25: The Nifty Stuff Keeps Coming -- "Cali King" Reviewed! (8 comments)
25: My Weekend Horoscope: (2 comments)
28: Publishers Weekly review of Gunning for the Buddha (14 comments)
28: Pickin' and Readin' and Crashin' (4 comments)
29: Getting by with a lot of help from my friends (10 comments)
30: Exercise and Delicate Movements (3 comments)
31: Head-Down Editing, Maybe Even Revising... (8 comments)
April
01: Fun, Sometimes Painful Research (22 comments)
02: Excuse me while I spin my wheels... (3 comments)
06: Another comparison to Tim Powers! I like it! (2 comments)
13: The Further Adventures of... (8 comments)
14: JIGSAW NATION Table of Contents (4 comments)
14: Can't Pass Up a Dare (even if it's an Anti-Dare) (6 comments)
16: The Joys of Not Writing (7 comments)
19: NOT Plucking Away... (8 comments)
20: Drew Update (11 comments)
22: Instead of an actual entry... (5 comments)
23: Well, imagine that. How novel... (4 comments)
24: Generic journal entry (3 comments)
26: Breaking the rules, breaking the rules (3 comments)
27: Good, low-stress morning (just a couple hours late)! (3 comments)
27: Nifty writing news (3 comments)
29: Quickie Update (3 comments)
May
01: This weekend update brought to you by Robitussin... (2 comments)
03: Back on the (Revising) Horse (2 comments)
04: Early mornings, yeah (0 comments)
04: This is why I need to keep writing... (4 comments)
05: The kid likes Coldplay (with obligatory photos) (13 comments)
09: Building Jasper Park (more pictures!) (11 comments)
10: Steam-powered writing (2 comments)
13: Part One (of Three) is Done! (4 comments)
16: Progress Report and Stuff (0 comments)
16: Gunning in LOCUS (At Last It Can Be Shared) (20 comments)
18: Progress and sore ears (9 comments)
22: Over halfway! Also, grilling in the rain and dog-fraternizing... (0 comments)
24: Christmas in Cuba (0 comments)
30: Back in Raleigh (2 comments)
June
01: June Writing Goals (6 comments)
03: Blog junkies, baby time, dead mice, and yuppiemobiles (9 comments)
07: Back at it again (13 comments)
07: Things to Do in Raleigh When it's Wednesday... (2 comments)
08: If it's Wednesday, it's got to be progress time... (2 comments)
10: And... it's the weekend (2 comments)
13: Slipping by... (12 comments)
13: Shoemaker and the Men in Dark Suits (1 comments)
16: Six months and 13 pages! (11 comments)
17: Done with the second run-through (7 comments)
21: Catch-Up, with a Pair o' Shots (6 comments)
28: New starts, little kiddoes, and eight amazing years (19 comments)
29: Revisiting Goals for the Month (a few days early) (0 comments)
29: One last thing before I go... (0 comments)
July
03: Novel News from the Road -- an Acceptance! (26 comments)
07: A Special Thank-You Entry (7 comments)
08: A quick recap of the Iowa trip (4 comments)
11: Bachelored (for a week) (6 comments)
12: Outlined, at last! (2 comments)
14: I'm so outta here. (5 comments)
17: Back from the beach, with a sale to boot! (14 comments)
18: Back to the old schedule (of sleeplessness) (4 comments)
20: Firsts (2 comments)
24: Summer Reading List (0 comments)
26: The Esquart Lives!!! (5 comments)
30: More Reading (but No Writing) (4 comments)
August
02: Web site revamp (at long last) (6 comments)
02: Writerly shovels (4 comments)
03: More Web Site Shenanigans... (4 comments)
06: It's fun the weirder it gets (13 comments)
08: On my own, once again... (6 comments)
09: slogging through temporary bachelorhood (10 comments)
10: Personal monkeybars and paper journals (4 comments)
11: Almost there... (6 comments)
15: Back to reality once more (8 comments)
16: Drew Jasper, Political Activist (at Eight Months of Age) (6 comments)
17: On page 50! Finally! (3 comments)
18: Photos from the vigil (3 comments)
18: buy buy BUY! (2 comments)
21: That was the sound of the weekend zipping past... (5 comments)
22: New 10-minute Rule (25 comments)
28: Damn this listlessness!!! (8 comments)
September
01: Writing in spite of the world (2 comments)
03: Into the woods, again (2 comments)
06: Esquart, tentative... (12 comments)
06: Almost done with section one... (0 comments)
08: Hello, Corolla-rolla, Buh-Bye Esquart (17 comments)
11: Day after Coldplay (2 comments)
12: Slogging along, with help from my first readers (0 comments)
13: About to write myself into a corner, methinks (2 comments)
14: Before I forget, a link: (4 comments)
14: Just about there, and nine months already! (9 comments)
15: Innnnteresting... (20 comments)
16: Refreshingly longhanded (4 comments)
21: Update (for whatever day this is...) (5 comments)
24: This book, it is growing on me... (15 comments)
25: As if there was any doubt about this one... (6 comments)
27: I should be revising, but... (6 comments)
29: Almost there... (3 comments)
29: Shiny new FEED! (0 comments)
30: End o' Month Burnout (6 comments)
October
01: Almost there... (again) (3 comments)
02: Done. (8 comments)
03: Opening lines shared... (0 comments)
04: Getting caught up and dining out... (5 comments)
06: Guys' Weekend. (4 comments)
07: How about two works-in-progress? (4 comments)
13: So what HAVE I been doing with my time lately? (7 comments)
14: A Visit with the Madfeets (4 comments)
15: Clarion Lives! (2 comments)
16: Start of one story, trying to wrap up another (6 comments)
17: Who has best/cheapest dialup??? (17 comments)
18: Do you remember? (10 comments)
19: Bullet style (4 comments)
20: Words, words, blogs, words (4 comments)
21: New story title (7 comments)
21: Another quickie... (0 comments)
25: A Good News/Bad News sort of Day (8 comments)
28: Tubed (13 comments)
29: Copy-edited (2 comments)
30: Pumpkined (then Jack-o-Lanterned), with Photos (6 comments)
31: Thank you Daylight Savings Time! (5 comments)
31: For those about the NaNoWriMo, we salute you! (6 comments)
November
01: Okay, just one more cute photo... (12 comments)
02: Just 4 and 3/4 hours late for this excerpt to be relevant.... (2 comments)
02: Madfeet -- Meet the Madfeet! (A story sale!) (16 comments)
05: Favorite Stories o' Mine (4 comments)
06: Back at it, longhand (4 comments)
07: Chiggers -- just because (9 comments)
10: Chapter, Excerpt, Cover, Walk (9 comments)
11: Moleskine Disappointment (13 comments)
12: Moleskine Happiness, iMac G5 Lust (6 comments)
13: Impulsiveness 1, Me 0 (11 comments)
15: Starting over, again, sort of (2 comments)
16: Hurry UP, FedEx! (16 comments)
18: Apple Fun (13 comments)
20: Processing Words on an Apple...? (23 comments)
22: Organizing, Pie, and Language (10 comments)
27: Finally (7 comments)
29: More rambling about language and structure (2 comments)
29: Nifty feedback, unsolicited; giggles, solicited (6 comments)
December
02: Rangergirl WEEK (3 comments)
02: Enough's Enough (3 comments)
05: Feeling the love from Russia... (14 comments)
06: Lots of nifty news (13 comments)
08: Techlit geek moment (3 comments)
08: 1st line of each month journal entry (3 comments)
09: Santa on top, again (6 comments)
13: Overnighting at the ER (12 comments)
13: And some writing stuff, just for the heckuvit (4 comments)
15: Birthdays! (10 comments)
16: Couple quickies for the end o' the week... (9 comments)
18: Done, and just started... (16 comments)
20: House stuff, with pix (16 comments)
21: Public Service Message for the holidays (9 comments)
26: Taking down Xmas (7 comments)
29: Working vacation (7 comments)
