So…I have a question for all you writerly types out there: Why is writing so hard? Sure, sometimes it is easy. Sometimes, we have days like yesterday, when I sat down and wrote two complete scenes, both of which just flowed onto the page and were done. Just like that. Even John did not have…
Behind me, on the livingroom floor, my mother and my daughter are cutting out a pattern for a shirt they are making for Ping-Ping. Life doesn’t get much more wonderful than this.
Don’t know why it is that some chapters get done in two days and others take THREE MONTHS! But that is how it goes. Chapter Twenty Six was one of the recalcitrant type. I started it in May, or maybe even April, but I just couldn’t seem to get it to go anywhere. At first,…
Back from Goshen, where Orville and I spent a wonderful five days doing Boy Scout stuff and reading The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan. I had a really good time. Orville comes home on Sat. Publishers Weekly, July 11, 2011 «Prospero Regained L. Jagi Lamplighter. Tor, $25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1931-9 Lamplighter wraps up her…
Hey Folks, Just a heads-up that I am gone until Wednesday. Orville and I are going to Camp Marriott at Goshen. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with Goshen–it is a huge tracked of land owned by Boy Scouts of America upon which resides somewhere between three and seven summer camps.) We’re going to…
Kind of neat…eh? From the July 15, 2011 issue of Kirkus Reviews PROSPERO REGAINED Author: Lamplighter, L. Jagi Review Date: July 15, 2011 Publisher:Tor Pages: 384 Price ( Hardcover ): $25.99 Publication Date: September 1, 2011 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-7653-1931-9 Category: Fiction Classification: Science Fiction/Fantasy In the final installment of a trilogy (Prospero in Hell,…
When I was young and arrogant, I used to criticize authors for not handling “obvious” issues in their books—issues which, in retrospect, were usually me jumping to some conclusion that the author could never have been expected to foresee. Well, this particular phenomena has come back to haunt me, as now similar things…
John ran a game today for the boys. They made me play. We started out as amnesiacs…a favorite of John’s…waking up in a hospital where our characters had been sedated. We soon snuch out and ran away. The baddies wanted to catch us, and they wanted normal people to be scared of us, so they…
Boy, it's been a long time…almost six months. Sorry, folks. Mephisto Prospero in all his glory The other day, the kids asked me what “filing off the serial numbers” meant. They were not familiar with the concept the phrase was borrowed from, so I had to stop to explain how thieves remove serial numbers…
Hey…I just realized that it has been a while. Sorry. So…last day of school: My daughter is now a high school student. Orville graduated from 6th grade. He received an extremely well deserved award for Achievement that he really, truly earned. He is hardly the same boy that started at that school five years ago.…