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Proof I enjoy playing my new ocarina: I’m choosing to practice playing it instead of listening to the new Owl City album.

I can play themes from Indian Jones and Jurassic Park on my fish ocarina. It’s nice to have a little clay fish who will sing for me.

Elaine is playing a pretend game that involves skipping about and happily saying, “I sold a story today!”

Elaine has introduced two more imaginary talking cats to our household: Mornging Glory and Honeysuckle. That brings us up to five, including the original three: Rosie, Froggy, and Quinny. Froggy is, of course, a green talking cat.

Today, my daughter says that we’re playing a game called “The Mermaid and her Swimming Cat.” I get to be the cat. She’s the mermaid.

I tallied it up, and I’ve written 100,000 words of fiction in the last year. Yet, somehow, I still feel like I’m not writing enough…

Reading the wiki page on raccoons completely changed the short story I just started. Fortunately, it made it better.

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I love it when research involves watching videos of baby raccoons. Continue reading “Important Racoon Research”

By the end of Rainfurrest: I met all kinds of amazing people and had the most fun I’ve ever had at a con! I got to be on panels with Alan Dean Foster; I had a chance to pitch my latest novel to a publisher; “Otters In Space” and the Rainfurrest anthology both sold out; and, I had to keep a pen clipped to my badge so that I could keep up with all the requests to sign things!

So far at Rainfurrest: I have two stories in “Stories from Camp RainFurrest,” the charity anthology which looks beautiful; both that and “Otters In Space” are available at the FurPlanet table in the Dealer’s Den; and, I was on a really fun and lively panel about Overcoming Writer’s Block. Continue reading “Panelist at Rainfurrest”

Gravity is a problem. Especially if it only exists (or stops existing) if I remember to have it do so.

So, in conclusion, when the Dictator of Gravity position comes up for election, in the best interests of everyone, I will not be running.

Apparently, when I get stuck — as in, make negligible progress for most of a year stuck — on “Otters In Space,” my solution ends up being to stick the main character in a box. Maybe when I’m writing OiS3 and get stuck around the 30,000 word mark, instead of banging my head uselessly against it for a year, I can skip straight to having Kipper hide in a box and keep writing.