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Less than two months left. Why am I not panicking? I know why. I’m waiting to hear back from New York, where I sent the first 20,000 words. Two days ago. It takes that long to get the company lawyers to obtain a restraining order.
But seriously, and here’s the dangerous part, I’m secretly hoping they’ll [...]
What a beautiful morning!
Yes, I’ve come in off the ledge this morning. Give me until, oh, about 4 pm before I become suicidal again. Meanwhile, after butting my head against a section all day yesterday that I couldn’t make interesting no matter what I threw at it, I just said, well to hell with it, [...]
I’m at that nauseatingly familiar point where I hate everything I’ve written. I hate the sentences as they form in my head. I hate WORDS in general.
I ALWAYS reach this point. And I’m always sure that although in the past I’ve gotten past it, THIS IS THE TIME I WON”T.
By the way: This is the [...]
Watched 60 Minutes last night. They devoted most of the hour to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. They got Mike Williams to repeat on camera, almost word for word, his testimony before the Coast Guard hearings about his ordeal after the explosions, and some of his concerns about safety on the rig. Then they [...]
Read More and CommentOk, it’s just Day Two of this Self-Pity Blog and it’s already getting scary. I’m still trying to assemble all my notes and I discover there’s already an Amazon page! And a Facebook page! Guess I better get to work.
Read More and CommentSO here’s the situation: My wonderful agents, Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, hooked me up with a bright, literate, absurdly knowledgeable former oil rig captain named John Konrad. John was personally connected to a lot of the people who were on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20 when a well 18,000 feet below the surface [...]
Read More and CommentI feel guilty in advance that I will not be posting many (or any) blog items in the next few months. I’ve signed a book contract with an insane deadline. So if you can spare a thought for me between now and Christmas, imagine me hunkered down over my laptop, my wife approaching from time [...]
Read More and CommentI’ve been getting a lot of rave comments on my blog posts recently. Consider this one I got today: “Congratulations for that marvelous blog post! I found your post very interesting, I think you are a great author. I will make sure to bookmark your blog and will come back quite soon to [...]
Read More and CommentThe third Post Hunt was unleashed on the unsuspecting (and in some cases, very suspect) masses Sunday. It was the biggest crowd for any Hunt ever — we guess around 12,000. Gene Weingarten, Dave Barry and I have done some uncountable number of these, originally in Miami, and now both in Washington and Miami. You [...]
Read More and CommentStieg Larsson is the universe’s hottest author at the moment. His three-novel series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has become a kind of Harry Potter phenomenon for adults. Larsson died at 50, before any of the novels were published. But he told friends he knew his books were going to make [...]
Read More and CommentLess than two months left. Why am I not panicking? I know why. I’m waiting to hear back from New York, where I sent the first 20,000 words. Two days ago. It takes that long to get the company lawyers to obtain a restraining order.
But seriously, and here’s the dangerous part, I’m secretly hoping they’ll [...]
What a beautiful morning!
Yes, I’ve come in off the ledge this morning. Give me until, oh, about 4 pm before I become suicidal again. Meanwhile, after butting my head against a section all day yesterday that I couldn’t make interesting no matter what I threw at it, I just said, well to hell with it, [...]
I’m at that nauseatingly familiar point where I hate everything I’ve written. I hate the sentences as they form in my head. I hate WORDS in general.
I ALWAYS reach this point. And I’m always sure that although in the past I’ve gotten past it, THIS IS THE TIME I WON”T.
By the way: This is the [...]
Watched 60 Minutes last night. They devoted most of the hour to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. They got Mike Williams to repeat on camera, almost word for word, his testimony before the Coast Guard hearings about his ordeal after the explosions, and some of his concerns about safety on the rig. Then they [...]
Read More and CommentOk, it’s just Day Two of this Self-Pity Blog and it’s already getting scary. I’m still trying to assemble all my notes and I discover there’s already an Amazon page! And a Facebook page! Guess I better get to work.
Read More and CommentSO here’s the situation: My wonderful agents, Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, hooked me up with a bright, literate, absurdly knowledgeable former oil rig captain named John Konrad. John was personally connected to a lot of the people who were on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20 when a well 18,000 feet below the surface [...]
Read More and CommentI feel guilty in advance that I will not be posting many (or any) blog items in the next few months. I’ve signed a book contract with an insane deadline. So if you can spare a thought for me between now and Christmas, imagine me hunkered down over my laptop, my wife approaching from time [...]
Read More and CommentI’ve been getting a lot of rave comments on my blog posts recently. Consider this one I got today: “Congratulations for that marvelous blog post! I found your post very interesting, I think you are a great author. I will make sure to bookmark your blog and will come back quite soon to [...]
Read More and CommentThe third Post Hunt was unleashed on the unsuspecting (and in some cases, very suspect) masses Sunday. It was the biggest crowd for any Hunt ever — we guess around 12,000. Gene Weingarten, Dave Barry and I have done some uncountable number of these, originally in Miami, and now both in Washington and Miami. You [...]
Read More and CommentStieg Larsson is the universe’s hottest author at the moment. His three-novel series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has become a kind of Harry Potter phenomenon for adults. Larsson died at 50, before any of the novels were published. But he told friends he knew his books were going to make [...]
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