Month: November 2008

Iapologize for the sporadicism of my narcissistic blogging. We've got grundles of family coming into town for Thanksgiving, and between work and housecleaning, Mrs. Cornell would have my head on a stick if I blogged any more than is absolutely necessary - and since no blogging is absolutely necessary, that settles that. I want to ... Read more

Thosewho are reading my book and have not yet commented on 5.2 - meaning everyone but thursowick - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me what for. These comments are more helpful than you know. I eagerly await your reviews. Reviewing things is fun to do, anyway, isn't it? Which is why I have prepared a series ... Read more

Davidhad kept the taxi waiting as he knocked on his mother’s front door. She hadn’t answered, which came as a disappointment but no real surprise. She hadn’t answered her phone either, and David had no idea where she was. He now had nowhere else to go but home. So he climbed into the back seat ... Read more

Iwas going to post the next piece of my book, and perhaps I will later today, but I wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to my newest Facebook friend and the finest civics teacher any high school student has ever had – the honorable Lee Shagin of Southern California. I try ... Read more

Oldline: “Oh, really?” Jeff was shouting now. “You know how this works, do you? A lot of experience in breaking and entering?” New, improved line: “Oh, really?” Jeff was peeved now. “You know how this works, do you? A lot of experience in breaking and entering?” _____________________ Old explosion sequence: She didn’t get a chance ... Read more

(BTW,if you haven't read yesterday's book chapter, please do and comment before reading this. This is just a rant. Your comments on yesterday's post would be much more helpful.) Just a few months ago, when oil was trading upwards of $140 a barrel, plenty of observers were predicting that gasoline could end up costing $10 ... Read more

I'vestarted rewriting, but I haven't seen it all the way through. I'm only 80% confident that I know what happens. This version of Chapter Five is significantly different from the original, but since no one has seen the original, I guess that doesn't matter. Chapter Five is pretty long, too, so I'm going to give ... Read more

SawQuantum of Solace on Saturday night, and I don’t really have much to say about it. That’s surprising, as I’m something of a James Bond geek. I can tell you how many official James Bond movies there have been – 22 – and can even tell you something about the unofficial ones – Sean ... Read more

It'slunchtime! I have a few minutes, and I'm going to waste them blogging. I'm going to finish out the week on the whole Prop. 8 business and hope to get back to posting new novel bits on Monday. The problem with that is that I have to do some major rewrites to the next chapter, ... Read more

I'vegot a lot going on in real life, so I may not have the time to blog extensively today, which is too bad, since PJG has made a lot of meaty comments on my Olbermann post that I want to address. PJG, thank you for giving voice to the opposition here - I'll respond when ... Read more