– The Profession of it All

This is what I’ve been musing over. Critiques, reviews, and opinions. The thought splits in two intertwined directions. As I write this post, I realize it needs to be two posts, so I’m going to do something sneaky. Y’all can read the opinion part of...

The Ambivilence of E-mail

I got lots of e-mail this weekend in my personal mailbox. Lots for me, anyway. I’m used to a message a day – the automated job search from monster.com that I should really turn off because I found a job, but leave on because what if they don’t hire...

Happy Spam!

I really need to figure out where y’all get your pretty images for your blogs. I know how to insert them, just not where to find them 😛 Anyway…today is happy spam day. That’s like Friday, but frosted with awesomeness, and rocking like Pop Rocks....

Good Writers Read

It’s a phrase I’ve heard again and again, and honestly I went through a spell where I didn’t think it was true. Don’t get me wrong – I love to read. Summer vacations when I was in school were spent in the library and checking out 5-10...

The Other Side of the Coin

Last night, for the first time ever in my illustrious (okay, short and spastic) published writing career, I got to approve edits to one of my stories. This isn’t the kind of thing that’s ever kept me awake at night, but I have always wondered what kind of...