Four-year-old: “I’m sorry.”
Me: “Why are you sorry?”
Four-year-old: “Oh, I didn’t wear a bow tie, and I want to wear a bow tie every day.”
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Watching Star Trek at Bed Time
The four-year-old is very clever; he’s figured out that if he says, “I want to watch Star Trek with you,” right at bedtime… I may fold.
Also, I may not have settled on which Data episode to rework, but I am definitely fixing Skin of Evil. In my universe, no way in hell Tasha dies.
Wesley
The four-year-old is entranced by his discovery that there’s a character with the same name as him on Star Trek TNG.
Companions
Four-year-old, muttering sadly: “The daleks shot my companions, so now I don’t have companions. I can’t save the world anymore.”
Me: “Would you… like help… finding new companions?”
Four-year-old: “Oh yes! I’m happy now!”
Perhaps Too Many Scream Dreams
The line between my brain helpfully inventing a new Scream movie for me to watch while sleeping and just plain old having a nightmare is getting kind of thin.
Struggling to Write
I’m pretty serious about finishing up the story I’m writing tonight… but the story seems pretty serious about not wrapping up.
It’s a battle of wits between me and my own story. Continue reading “Struggling to Write”
Writing While Watching a Four-Year-Old
*summons the willpower and concentration to tune out the singing socks on Sesame St. and instead work on writing my Tri-Galactic Trek tale*
I’ve failed to tune out the Sesame St… This message is brought to you by the letter W and the number 0, representing my word count. Continue reading “Writing While Watching a Four-Year-Old”
So Much Flash…
At the end of 2016, we had big plans for publishing a lot of flash fiction this year. Well, we have good news and bad news… Obviously, it’s September, and we haven’t published a lot this year. However, that’s because the stories we were going to publish have instead been picked up by other markets — many of them by Daily Science Fiction! Continue reading “So Much Flash…”
Yellow
Visiting the Oregon Air and Space Museum…
The kids think the Oregon Air and Space Museum — a small, eclectic airplane hangar filled with planes and mannequins — would be a good setting for a Doctor Who episode.
The four-year-old likes the planes but is creeped out by the mannequins. The ten-year-old is now completely lost in recounting episodes of Doctor Who. Continue reading “Visiting the Oregon Air and Space Museum…”