Another snippet from “The Gears That Grind.” In which Your Author uses a Cunning Stratagem in order to keep from having to explain the Stock Market. Continue reading Just Write
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Okay, I’ve done my Fannish Duty
By which I mean, submitted my ballot for the Hugos.
How I Spent my 4th of July, by Kit Russell, Age Thirty-Nine and Seven-Eighths
Ever since I was a kid, my family has been spending the 4th of July down at my grandmother Margy’s house in Long Beach. Continue reading How I Spent my 4th of July, by Kit Russell, Age Thirty-Nine and Seven-Eighths
Just Write: 552 Words
Lynn Viehl (Paperback Writer) has recently started “Just Write” Thursdays, which are pretty much what they sound like: write something, post online by midnight, link. http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2014/05/just-write.html
(Which means no editing. Which means this is going to be first-draft-tacular and epically info-dumpy.)
But I’ve been feeling really stalled with the pre-writing for The Gears that Grind. So I decided just to jump in, get into Sally’s head, and see what she’s up to.
Sally didn’t hear the watchman until he was nearly upon her.
It’s time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and LEAP
For the past three years, I’ve been sitting on the name kitrussell.com. Squatting my own name, if you will. Waiting to be “ready” to take it live. To have something worth posting, something worth selling. A book accepted, on the way to being published.
In about a month and a half, I’ll turn 40.
The perfect time will never come. I’ll never be “ready.”
But I could decide to take a leap of faith.