Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
New Hampshire, land of solitude
Well, I am off to finish my book.
That is the plan, at least what is going to happen.
It turns out that somehow I have gotten to within striking distance of the end of the novel, except for the fact that the official end of the novel is one of those things that gets farther and farther [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in writing by sandi
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Gifts from google
One of the most fun things about writing a blog is getting to see what phrases people type in that somehow get them stumbling over to your site.
Lately here are some of the things that google, in all its mysteriousness, apparently thought I might be able to help with. Some are actually quite astonishing and even [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Meta by sandi
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Google knows what we need
Okay, not so many people have sent in their page 123 of their novels, or even page 23 of their work in progress stories.
I am happy to wait…but in the meantime, I have found a lovely time-waster. It’s a meme I discovered on quite a few blogs, a little game in which you type your [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Meta by sandi
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Page 123
Somehow I didn’t get the memo about winter coming back. This nor’easter caught me completely by surprise, especially since we’d been having what you might have to call the first stirrings of spring. Until now, that is. Spring has been run right out of town, in favor of 24 hours of snow and sleet and [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in weather,writing by sandi
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Cartoon for the day
I think this sums up my life, nicely.
It’s courtesy of the New Yorker cartoon bank. Is there anything else that can be said?
4 Comments » - Posted in writing by sandi
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Bob Dylan sings Dr. Seuss: is the world perfect, or what?
I ask you: Is there a day that goes by that wouldn’t be improved by having “The Cat in the Hat” sung to you by Bob Dylan?
Not the current Bob Dylan, the one who sings about Alicia Keyes and has a pretty normal voice, relatively speaking…but the good old nasal-voiced Bob Dylan who sang “The [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in real life,writing by sandi
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
That missing hour was the one I really, really needed
I think this year they took more than an hour when they changed us over to Daylight Saving Time. If we’d stayed awake and watched closely, I think we would have seen that they took more like two or three hours. And for what? So that we can look up at 7:30 p.m. and think, “Oh, [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in real life,writing by sandi
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
A tiny little American Idol addiction
I hate to admit this out loud, but I honestly may be acquiring a little “American Idol” problem.
That happens sometimes, you know. You’re going along, living a perfectly fine life, knowing exactly which things you need to worry about and which things other people have to worry about–and then suddenly you realize you’re actually [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in real life by sandi
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Chicken curry in a hurry
I am supposed to be blogging about writing, and life. But what is life without chicken curry–and how is one supposed to spend good quality time writing when one is going to need recipes that can be made in the blink of an eye?
Let’s face it: sometimes when you are too busy, you get sick of [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in cooking by sandi
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
The torture of a deadline
Okay, I haven’t gone over the edge yet into Deadline Hell. I still have eight weeks to finish my book, and so I am jogging rather than sprinting to the finish line.
I have been writing ten pages a day for a week now, which means that, although I am a little flaky and not-really-present-in-my-own-life, I am [...]
