It’s October 31st, and you know what that means… synopsis day! Yep, screw the candy corn and sheet-ghosts, this is the last day before the kick-off of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It’s been a month since I decided to participate, so naturally I’m getting around to outlining my ideas today. I. Am. Not. Ready.

Mystery fans have lost one of the genre’s most original voices. Tony Hillerman, the author of 18 Navajo-themed mysteries, has died at 83.

Today is Blog Action Day, a concerted effort by bloggers world-wide to raise awareness of a topic that affects us all. I must admit, when I first heard that this year’s topic was poverty, I was a wee bit apprehensive. What could I possibly say about being poor that would have any meaning? 

Technology ought to be simple, don’t you think? Blogging technology certainly is. Thanks to WordPress, adding a new post here is as simple as opening a vein and letting it flow into the keyboard, then hitting “Publish”. One aspect of blogging has always bugged me though, and that’s the reading part—more specifically, feed reading. Until […]

It’s almost that time again. November 1 marks the start of the tenth annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for the hip). Every year, increasingly large numbers of literary speed-freaks set their keyboards ablaze by writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days. The whole NaNo notion stands normal writing convention on its ear, with sheer […]

You know you’ve been away from blogging too long when you get a login prompt on your own admin control panel. I actually had to squint at the ceiling for a minute before I remembered my own username and password. Now that I’m back in, I think I’m about ready to start posting again. Deciding […]