All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘writing’

• Hilo Wednesday (done)

  Stuff to do and see: 1) Finish packing (ugh) 2) Farmer’s market (6 am – 4 pm), specifically for jam/honey guy and soap guy 6) Imiloa (9-5, $17.50, but this is the most interesting of the museums  for me) 7) Place that sells unrefined Hawaiian …

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• Hilo Wednesday (To Do)

  Stuff to do and see: 1) Finish packing (ugh) 2) Farmer’s market (6 am – 4 pm), specifically for jam/honey guy and soap guy 3) Zoo, specifically Namaste’s feeding at 3:30 (zoo’s open from 9-4, free) 4) Pacific Tsunami Museum (9-4:15, $8) 5) Lyman museum …

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• Hilo Monday

  I slept in late (really, I slept 8 hours, I just got to sleep late) and got up and had the same old thing at Ken’s Pancakes. For breakfast, I’m a creature of habit. I’d planned to go to Akaka falls and the Hawaiian Tropical …

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  Weekend Wrap-Up

  Sunday Morning I gave my reading and about a half-dozen people came. Some of them I didn’t even know. For a 10 a.m. Sunday morning reading, this is successful, as even established authors have difficulty filling a room at most conventions. After my reading was …

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• Long Weekend Trip to San Diego

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  I was originally scheduled to come to San Diego on Saturday morning so I could go to a work-related event on Friday, but, well, I had an opportunity for yet another medical appointment, so that took precedence and I flew down Thursday morning. Getting to …

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• The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Situation

  For those of you who don’t know, Doranna Durgin asked for reversion from her publisher, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and they have stalled despite being contacted by SFWA’s Grievance Committee (aka Griefcom). Griefcom frequently handles issues like reversions when they get sticky, but the situation went …

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  Photo Friday: Sagrada Familia

  I have been meaning to post some photos. Sadly, I relied on my camera’s 40-year-old light meter and, well, it works fine in daylight, but not so much indoors. With that disclaimer, I still think this photo of the windows is pretty even though it’s …

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• Miscellanea

  First, I’ve been starting to send out rejection letters for BayCon’s flash fiction submissions. I’ve sent out about a quarter of them so far. Sorry for the delay, I wanted to re-read pieces because I wasn’t reading them in my best frame of mind with …

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  Revision Habits

  I’m really really really not a one-draft writer. At some point, I hope to dazzle you all with an illustration of how much I’m not a one-drafter, but today is not that day. Generally a first draft for me runs very short — somewhere between …

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• A Visit With Writers and My Thoughts from Last Night

  Last night, I went to go see my Clarion classmate, Catherine Holm read from her collection, My Heart Is a Mountain and talk about yoga practices in writing. Karen Joy Fowler [1], one of our Clarion instructors, was also there, as well as Cat’s brother …

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