How Do I Know What I Think Until I See What I Say?

1. There are many things that I don't like about autumn, but one of them is that the dreary gray Ohio weather makes it hard to tell what time it is when you wake up in the morning, so you don't know if you're early or late. 2. Jay's Nanowrimo Word Count: 16,667 3. Also, it's dark when I leave work now, which is crap . Who invented Daylight Savings? Savings for whom, cause I don't see the sun from now until effing April! 4. Also, if there's going to be so much yardwork to do in the fall, it should really be nicer out. I don't want to wear a winter coat while I try to pick up sticks in my yard. At least in summer, it's nice out. 5. Except that it was actually nice out this weekend (like summer, practically), and I still didn't want to do yardwork. I did though. Thank you, God, for the invention of the leaf blower.

Recently, J.A. Konrath has a post on his blog about how he believes that ebooks are the future of the publishing industry. I don't necessarily disagree with him, but I've got some issues with his discussion of people who are resisting books in digital form that I wanted to address.* 1. Konrath's first point is this: I love the feel of a regular book. I hear this a lot. The tactile experience of cracking open the spine and turning the pages. The smell and feel of paper. We grew up reading paper, and we have a good relationship with it that fosters warm feelings. But what if we grew up reading ebooks ? Would paper have a single advantage? Who's to say you can't form that same bond with an ereader ? I'm sure you can form a bond with an ereader. And I'm sure that people growing up now are much more comfortable reading ebooks than even I am (and I'm pretty comfortable with digital content). And I'm not saying that ereaders won't become the domina...

see more Lolcats and funny pictures Via LOLcat, of course. NaNoWriMo Word Count: 11,663

Nanowrimo Word Count: 9665 In lieu of an actual post during this, the Month of Insanity, I give you the ABCs of Me meme, stolen from Steph Bowe of Hey, Teenager of the Year . Available or in a Relationship: Available. In theory. I don't even know you. Best Friend: V, Queen of Customer Service. Cake or Pie: A close one, but I'd have to say cake. Drink of Choice: Coke Zero. If we're including alcohol, then a margarita is always a party in my mouth. Essential Item For Every Day Use: Pen Favorite Color: Blue Google?: Hell yeah! Hometown: Waukesha, Wisconsin Indulgences: I'm ashamed to admit it because it sounds like a stereotype, but shoes. ::hangs head:: January or February: February. It's closer to spring. Kids and Their Names: No, but if I had kids, I'm sure I would have named them at some point. Life is Incomplete Without: you, dear. Or stories. Yeah, I'm gonna go with stories. Marriage Date: Should you take a date to your wedding? I tho...

see more Lolcats and funny pictures Via LOLcat, of course. NaNoWriMo Word Count: 7,484

1. I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year in an attempt to get a first draft of my current project firing on all cylinders. It should be interesting, since I'm a fast writer, but I'm not typically 1667 words a day fast. If I can figure out how to get the word counter widget thing working on Blogger, I'll post it here. 2. Writer Beware has an excellent post here on copyright and what it means to writers. Most important to my mind is Victoria's last point: if it's not in writing, it didn't happen . I don't care how nice your agent or editor is; I don't care what they promised you. I don't care if they've "never" done something or "always" do something. I don't care if they're related to you. If it's not in writing, it didn't happen. 3. Ann Aguirre talks over at Fangs, Fur, and Fey about her attitude toward phone calls (namely, she doesn't make them). While I'm not quite as Victorian as she is,* I ...

Happy Halloween! In honor of this auspicious holiday, I would like to talk about a song that sounds like late autumn to me -- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. This particular Jay Hears A Song is brought to you by Anonymous,* who reminded me of this song one day, and now it's on my iPod all the time. So thank you, Anonymous (I think :) ). The thing about "The Wreck" is that it is a song that, by all rights, I should not like, but because of my own personal history with it, I do. In case you haven't heard it, it's a folk song about the wreck of a boat called the Edmund Fitzgerald**, which sank in 1975 in Lake Superior. The events surrounding the sinking are semi-mysterious*** and this mystery is what I think led in part to the song's longevity (at least to me). Let's face it--there's not much drama in "there was a big storm and a boat sank." Also, as much as I personally enjoy it, "The Wreck"?...