Deep Sky Anchor

It’s frustrating that “uselessly wasting time before going to bed” and “gearing up to do a bunch of sudden, surprising writing” can look so much alike while they’re happening.

Any moment now, I could redeem all the time I’ve been wasting by just writing a quick passage. Any moment.

So, if I go to bed, I’m admitting I was just wasting time. If I double down though… I could get some real writing done! Or waste even more time… Hmm…

Also, apparently, I’ve reached the time of night where my writing involves a lot of ellipses… so… there’s that to consider…

I’m working on the sequel to In a Dog’s World… and I really need to just sit down and reread the first one rather than having to stop every few minutes to look up which characters were what breed of dog and lived in what dorm and who was who’s roommate…

Working through the critiques I got on my latest novella — apparently, “like a hot knife through butter” is too cliche. Thus, “a hot knife through blue raspberry jello.” That should be less cliche. Nailed it. Fixed. On to the next thing.

My main character in World of Warcraft hit level 90 and summoned herself a new demon!‬

Restart World of Warcraft, stay up until 5am… yeah… that seems about right.

I’m going to be entirely off the grid — no internet, no electricity — for much of this weekend. I think I’ll bring a notebook and try to figure out outlines for a furry ghostbuster novel and a cats with magical mutant powers novel.‬

The four-year-old, speaking of a creek we found: “I want to talk to the water privately.‬
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I told him I was going to stay here, but he could whisper to it. So he is.‬

Me: “What did you tell it?”‬

‪Four: “A secret!”‬ Continue reading “Talking to Creeks, Buying Praying Mantises, and Moving Boxes”

–arrange toys around my computer
–scroll through twitter
–google galaxies
–tweet about googling galaxies
–describe a planet as being like a honeydew melon bobbing on the ocean

That’s a good amount of work, right? Continue reading “My writing progress so far tonight:”

Another one for the list of things I should have never had to say: “No cars on the piano!” To be filed with, “Don’t kick your grandmother,” and “Don’t stand on the piano!” The younger child has a thing for trying to destroy the piano.

And before I finished posting, he managed to elicit, “No cars on the windows!”

Me: Do you have any homework tonight?‬
‪10-yr-old: I have to watch Little Shop of Horrors.‬
‪Me, to myself: This seems unlikely…‬
‪Me, out loud: Perfect, let me help you with that.‬

The ten-year-old is pitching me her idea of mashing up Annie and Little Shop of Horrors. It sounds amazing. Continue reading “Little Shop of Horrors”

Apparently, today is Unicorn Day.  So here’s a fresh hot cup of unicorn stories, newly available here at Deep Sky Anchor:

• Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn — The Dragon and Unicorn come calling.    [~1,000 words]
• Feral Unicorn — Janie’s in over her head when her pet unicorn’s horn comes in, and he starts working mischievous magic around the house.       [~4,800 words]

And if you need some more, we do have a few stories that have been rattling around the site a bit longer:

• Cyclops on Safari — A normal day on safari, in a different world.    [~800 words]
• The Carousel of Spirits — When Artie finds a ghost haunting his carousel, it’s time for him to build a new horse.     [~3,700 words]

Enjoy!

And Happy Unicorn Day!