I’m home from work today because I have been feeling sickly. It’s a nice day…except for the asshats. Right now, they’re outside talking, sometimes driving away in a car, coming back to the manor in a car, hollering, smoking, and – the most distressing bit – listening to the rap music they have blaring from [...]
Archive for September, 2010
28 Sep
Wow…and Welcome (again or for the first time)
If you’re just joining The Writing Spider after yesterday’s totally unexpected but entirely welcomed ‘Freshly Pressed’ designation, thank you and I’m glad to know you! I’m looking at everyone’s blogs if you put them in the comments of yesterday’s post. So many people shared snippets of their own stories, or comments on music and memory [...]
27 Sep
Getting Closer to Fine
Science has supposedly told us that scent is the most powerful memory trigger humans have. There are times, indeed, that I’ve caught a whiff of my grandmother’s apartment – fresh Maine air tinged with pine, a little bit of Comet cleaner, and her favorite Jean Nate body splash – despite the fact that her apartment [...]
9 Sep
Here be Dragon(Con)
I survived my first con. And there was much rejoicing. I went with the express intent of participating in A.C. Crispin’s (Ann) writing workshop and getting a critique from her on my manuscript. Going in with low expectations helps – most of the teaching part of the workshop was stuff I’ve heard in my eight skillion [...]
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