Shannon

The Intrepid Writers have made it to Oregon! The bottom of the state, granted, but Oregon! We woke up at You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me O’clock (after I’d been up till, I dunno, 2?) so that Mark could be first in line at the mechanic’s, though I’m not sure quite how much good that […]

So we waited over an hour (after being told 20 minutes) for the taxi to take us to our chosen dinner spot. Then the cheerful taxi driver started driving off in what I was sure was entirely the wrong direction–but what do I know, I don’t know anything about Redding. A few minutes later the

The car broke down! On the freeway! In Redding! I limped to the shoulder and parked safely, whereupon ensued an hour-long wait for a tow truck…in 106 degree heat…bleah! We’re now waiting for a cab, to go to dinner. Waiting in a nice air-conditioned motel room, ah. I’m beginning to have reservations about this car….

Another lovely day in paradise today, although this photo is from a day or two ago, as I finally managed to get a few photos off my phone and send them to my computer: We are doing a visiting marathon. One of the visits today included an adorable clutch of chickens. The chickens were very

SCENE: Late night walk on beach Group: Off we go to walk on the beach! Little Dog: (lags behind) Group: Come on, Little Dog! Little Dog: (lags further behind) Me: Oh no, no no, I know where THIS is going. Little Dog: (lags still further behind) Me: (carries Little Dog for entire walk on beach)

Scene: INTREPID WRITERS have rejoined DAD and STEPMOM* for another vacation opportunity. This time on the Northern California coast. 5:00 a.m., everyone sleeping World: RUMBLE RUMBLE BANG SHAKE CRACK Me: Mumble grff WTF was that?? Mark: An earthquake! Me: Hrm grumble really??! Mark: I’d guess it was 4-point-something, and really near here! Both of us:

I had the most ridiculously pleasant experience flying to the Bay Area yesterday, I can’t even tell you. Seriously, you wouldn’t believe me. Nearly empty plane, landed early, no turbulence, etc etc. Ridiculous. Met up with Mark (yay!); we had a delicious lunch at La Note, and then caught a matinee of Brave, which was

Busy day today, packing to leave for California for a few days. Plus I went to the doctor for this eye-thing, which of course very nearly vanished because I had a doctor’s appointment, but I still went in and he looked at it carefully and gave me some eye drops, plus cortisone cream for the

Gah! No more writing to word count! All I am doing now is cutting, cutting, cutting. At least there’s a good story under there. But it’s buried WAY deep. I got through another chapter today. Slow going: I worked all afternoon and evening on it. But it is now 14 pages long when it was

I basically spent all day working on Hogboblin today, unwriting…editing, that is, which at this point amounts to the same thing. I got through a whole chapter, plus I deleted the chapter that was from the POV I’m not using any more. (I read it, and decided it didn’t have anything the book really needed…so,