My thanks, gang, for all the gruesome info on primitive phlebotomy. As entertaining as the notion of our freelance barbarian gynecologist* hauling out the fleam and the leeches is, I’m gonna have to go with the heated bell jars, which is just weird and advanced enough to get the feeling of the society as a […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Okay, you people have all kinds of knowledge at your fingertips, and grim and grisly little minds to fill in the gaps… Let’s say we have a fantasy society that is…mm…post-Renaissance, just starting to crawl into the opening throes of the industrial revolution. It’s advanced enough to have mental asylums and a fair number of […]
I’m out of it today. I have quite a good excuse–yesterday was the Red Storm Christmas Party, and James’s company does one hell of a bash. (Think lavish open bar. For about seven hours.) James generally only gets completely obliterated once or twice a year, which I consider perfectly reasonable–all things in moderation, even moderation. […]
Over at Making Light, they posted an open thread linking to Robert Bly’s great anti-war poem, “The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last.” I hadn’t thought about that in years. Now, I am far too young to have any memories of Vietnam. I’ve known a few veterans–not all that many, there’s a pretty significant age gap, and […]
I was talking to my buddy Deb today about how unproductive I’ve been for a couple of weeks, and how guilty I feel about it. My problem of course is that I hold myself to a really unattainable level of productivity, and because I actually manage to achieve it occasionally, I beat myself up like […]
God help me, now I want to write the stuff. Things that stop me: A) Remaining shreds of dignity. (Oh, c’mon, I’ve done sketchbook commissions at furry conventions. What am I clinging to?) B) Time is money, and time spent on writing with no potential use is arguably wasted. (Am I not allowed to do […]
It’s an interesting fact, but you can make a day of running off prints into much less of a mind-numbing tedium if you’re reading fan fiction for most of it. I have to say, my opinion has shifted upward a couple of notches. Nothing that can make me bray like a hysterical donkey that many […]
Today I run off prints. All day. Let me remind people, by the way, that if you’d like to order some prints for Christmas, we’re gettin’ down to the wire, so order now!
I have PMS. Again. It happens regularly, of course, but because it’s chemicals in your head, it still feels real. Because I have PMS, I am depressed. I tore the house apart for the sort of book I wanted, and didn’t find it, because I’m not sure it exists, and writing it in the next […]
I’m sure I’m not alone in this… Y’ever noodle around writing something, just jotting down bits of scenes and dialog as they occur, and you get one scene, and then you get another one, and then you look at the two and they make your heart break, because, despite the fact that it would be […]