I don’t think I’ve ever hidden the fact that I write posts ahead of time and schedule them to appear here on the appointed day. Most bloggers do this. It’s a survival mechanism: We’d all be in straight-jackets by week four if we had to manually post each and every post on the appointed day […]
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When it comes time to write these posts, my habit is to open up my reading software on my cellphone — Kindle, the ePub reader, Acrobat, etc — and find what it was that I’ve been reading lately, and report on that. Which puts me in an interesting position this month. First up, I’ve been
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Well, I didn’t smash any land-speed records, or break any vital bones, but this Christmas was remarkable because it wasn’t remarkable. Peace reigned in our household, there was no stress about dinner, and a good time was had by all. Oh, and I got one present I craved: The complete archived set of 158 issues
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My best wishes to everyone who celebrated Christmas Day yesterday, and for everyone who got the day off from work, I hope you made the best of it. Of course, I’m writing this somewhere in the past, so I’m not sure yet if I made a very good day of it or not, but I
Working Notes – December 26, 2011 Read More »
So Mark hits me with the news that he had to pick up some wrestler from the airport at the crack of dawn on Saturday, and because they’re not heading to Red Deer for the evening’s show until noon (Red Deer is only a couple of hours south of here), said wrestler would have to
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Working Notes – My Life, December 12 I originally had this post scheduled for much earlier — mid-November, actually. But my writing brain suddenly unlocked itself and words gushed out, and I finished an entire book in fifteen days and had an abrupt need to advise you about this new series I’d started, and
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Even when I was in hospital, I didn’t get huge amounts of time to read — shocking, I know. Mark smuggled my laptop into isolation, and saved me from going insane. I wrote blog posts and my latest book instead of reading. But there were times when I simply too tired to do either, and
What I’m Reading – December 5 Read More »
I’m one of those writers who doesn’t believe in writer’s block. I don’t think it exists as an independent condition. If a writer can’t bring herself to write, then there’s an underlying reason for the “block”. Resolve that base reason, and the writer will be able to write again. But there isn’t a disease that
Working Notes – December 12, 2011 Read More »
Happy Birthday, Barbara Ann Cooper. My Mum. My Mum lives in Australia, and believe it or not, she reads every single one of my posts, although some of them have to crisp the hair in her nostrils! She also keeps every copy of every one of my books that I give her, but I know
Working Notes – November 7, 2011 Read More »
An Unsettling Thought Or Two For Your Halloween Trick Or Treat This post was going to be about something else entirely. It was going to be about the fact that one of the world’s greatest magicians — Harry Houdini — capped off his brilliant career by dying on the most auspicious day of the year
Working Notes – October 31, 2011 Read More »