a christmas eve experiment
Have fun deciphering my handwriting, y’all!
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Some good news
I’m not sure this image is big enough!
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Senseless loss
Remembering Marty Cesana My friend Marty died as a result of a stupid training accident at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, in 1996. Military training itself is not stupid. We train as we fight, which can happen day or night, in the dust and heat of the desert or in the brutal…
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Stay
All of my journaling about staying in a bad situation or going to an unknown (but also guaranteed to be difficult) one led to two pro-con lists that cancelled each other out entirely. What was good about one element was negated by something pretty awful on the other side.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Here are the choices: stay in my job that used to be mindless but I could leave it all on my desk and go blithely into the other sixteen hours of my day. I could switch it off so fast and so completely that I honestly forgot I worked there when I was on my…
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How’s it going with your book?
It’s been a bit more than a month since Playing Army was released and I’ve got some things to say about how things are going. But as is typical for me, what I have to say doesn’t necessarily match up with what people mean when they ask that question. Probably they want to know if…
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Out-takes from Playing Army, round one!
First, the unboxing video! Videos of writers opening boxes of their books are A Thing. By now you’ve all seen the cover of Playing Army, but this is where I hold the physical book in my hand for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKDmHRCgfQ Yay! And thank you to Colette for making the video, but I wish…
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Ask.
Here’s the not-fun news about having a book coming out: you have to get out of your lil bubbly creative comfort zone and ask people for help. The help that you’re not paying for, but people’s time and creative energy. For me, for whom these are my most greedily hoarded resources, this is hard hard hard to do. It’s not my default to ask for things. I always assume the other person will groan inwardly at a request from one more writer coming at them, palm up.
But we all know what happens when you assume, right?
