Celestial Chicken Blog

This article from CNN has to make me think twice before tapping out my novel at work.  Yikes.

I’m busy baking cookies and mending clothes and doing laundry and getting ready for Christmas.  But what I really want to do is write.  I’m stuck in the general vicinity of the kitchen/dining room, which is also, oddly enough, my office.  So I have both computers fired up and am surfing and goofing off between [...]

I have this list of books I’d like to read.  Some are classics, some are new entries in the market, some are things people have recommended to me.  Occasionally I look at the list and pick out a book or two to read, to “catch up” on my list.  There are more books on the [...]

This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature went to a well-schooled Zimbabwean teacher, Doris Lessing.  She gave a fairly lengthy acceptance speech that I have not been able to read in its entirety as yet.  It is all the buzz yesterday and today online in several tech blogs.  At first I found it puzzling that it [...]

I always tell people that the first line of any of my Nano novels is “It was a dark and stormy night.”  Throughout Nano, my book excerpt on my Nano profile on the site says the same thing. So when I saw this , I knew it had to be mine.

I didn’t motivate myself to listen to the WriMoRadio episodes this year.  For the first three, they weren’t showing up on iTunes, which is how I download everything for my iPod, and when they finally did show up, there were so many that I didn’t bother.  But tonight I had nothing else on my iPod [...]

Today is December 1, ergo, it is the beginning of the wait for next year.  I fixed my Nano counter (see to the right) to count off until November 2008.  It seems like such a faraway thing, and it is, and we’ll all keep busy in the ensuing 11 months doing whatever it is we [...]