Archive for February, 2012

I Married an Astrologist!

Well, not me personally, but I think someone did. I recently started getting the daily paper courtesy of a mysterious benefactor or a random clerical error, so I’ve taken to doing the crosswords more often. And next to the daily crossword are the horoscopes, but every time I look at mine, I really feel like syndicated astrologist Jeraldine Saunders must have married a Leo on account of the tone that they seem to convey (“balance the budget! clean the gutters! get your feet off the coffee table!”).

Take today’s, for instance:

You may get it into your head that you must go buy the latest smartphone, but just don’t go whole hog.

Looking at the other horoscopes for today, none of them are nearly as specific. They mention the usual things: finances, relationships, decisions, opportunities, competitions, roadblocks. “Smartphones” seems like an odd thing for a horoscope to be about.

For the record, I don’t believe in astrology nor are smartphones anywhere near the front of my mind right now. Well, except in this context.

Add comment February 27th, 2012

Carcinogen

I forget the comic book artist who said it but the impact of the idea remains: whenever you get a new sketchbook, just draw something, anything, awful and goofy on the first blank page; this frees you up to do anything you like in the pages beyond.

I should have posted this here earlier, but here it is: I started this novella for NaNoWriMo three years back. I recently went through and edited it (just a once-over) because I wanted to get something out there. So I bucked up and put up a Kindle edition:

Carcinogen

It turns out that getting the formatting right is a giant pain in the ass without an actual Microsoft Word-formatted .DOC. Why, Kindle? Why won’t you recognize tab indents from any of the other thousand programs I own that output the Word .DOC format?

Other than that, well– it’s not the most life-changing story in the world, but it’s mine and having that first goofy page inked in makes it a lot easier to go forward. Now I can focus on all of the other stories that have been brewing in my head and let them find their way out into the world.

Add comment February 11th, 2012


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