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Archives: (from before I switched to JournalScape)
July 21-31, 2002: Movies, Hugos, blizzards, and writing burnout...
July 11-20, 2002: Back to the novel, with the help of a lovely wife and Nunzilla...
July 1-3, 2002: A week of goofing off, travel, and some Independence...
June 25-30, 2002: Where did those surfing zombies come from?
June 16-24, 2002: Sweating the wordages, in and out of the saddle, acceptances...
June 10-15, 2002: It's fun to get up early, it really is...
June 1-9, 2002: Assimilation, contemplation, and a hint of relaxation (not!)...
May 25-29, 2002: The Oregon Coast Professional Writers Workshop.
May 14-22, 2002: Ready to leave, lots of transitions...
May 2-12, 2002: Have you seen this dog???
Apr. 23-30, 2002: A nooner, a critic, a reviewer, a cynic, a writer...
Apr. 15-22, 2002: Suffering characters and gazing at the stars from the Alley...
Apr. 9-14, 2002: It all begins to Blur together...
Apr. 1-7, 2002: An hour a day -- is that so much to ask???
Mar. 30-31, 2002: 7,000 words -- 'nuff said...
Mar. 22-29, 2002: Drafting ain't easy...
Mar. 10-21, 2002: Acceptances, invitations, and sudden word emergences...
Mar. 1-8, 2002: A whole lot of writing followed by a whole lot of not writing...
Feb. 20-28, 2002: A car wreck, a story acceptance, a trio of crits, and a chapter almost completed...
Feb. 11-18, 2002: Feasting, laboring, revising (again!), reading...
Feb. 1-10, 2002: Daring to dawdle, tweaking of novels, posting to agents, drafting of Buddha...
Jan. 20-31, 2002: A reprint, a sore brain, a new website, and a fish named Rudy...
Jan. 14-19, 2002: Eyeball-slicing, sorcerer-bidding, and a little bit of SF/F-writing...
Jan. 7-13, 2002: Melting snow, writing first sentences, and revisiting an old world...
Jan. 1-6, 2002: Down with hangovers, up with new novel projects!!!
Jan. 1, 2002: 2002 - Goals for the New Year
Dec. 31, 2001: 2001 - The Year in Review
Dec. 20-31, 2001: One story, two story, one outline, four...
Dec. 3-19, 2001: A mini-vacation from writing, taken in Middle-Earth...
Nov. 14-30, 2001: Hitting the wall and not writing lots and lots...
Nov. 7-13, 2001: Writing lots and lots, hitting 20,000 words...
Nov. 1-6, 2001: Diving into a new novel, hitting 10,000 words...
Oct. 22-31, 2001: Psychoses, synopses, stories, submissions, and cartography...
Oct. 15-21, 2001: The rollercoaster comes back for another round...
Oct. 8-14, 2001: A month of rejections, all in one week...
Oct. 1-7, 2001: A con is a con is a con... unless it's a NaNoWriMo!!!
Sep. 1-31, 2001: The 1/24/30 Dare Page
Sep. 26-28, 2001: Wrapping things up and a trip to the Windy City
Sep. 17-25, 2001: Another goal met and Express-Mailed to NYC...
Sep. 8-16, 2001: An outpouring of sympathy and words and hope...
Sep. 1-7, 2001: Conning in Philly, jamming out words in Raleigh, sleeping only rarely...
Aug. 25-31, 2001: Back in the writing saddle, with a Dare on the horizon (getalong little dogie!)...
Aug. 12-24, 2001: Returning from vacation and diving into Day Job madness...
July 29-Aug. 3, 2001: Finishing up stories, celebrating friends, zipping off to the beach (round 2)...
July 19-26, 2001: In story-revising mode, jonesin' for acceptance, to the beach (round 1)...
July 12-18, 2001: Another story drafted, novel publishers, stories by friends, carnies, Shriekback, a proof, and NAW(!)...
July 5-11, 2001: More wordage, a draft done, and a trip that can't get here soon enough...
June 28-July 4, 2001: Video nasties, Buddha-killing, popcorn theory, and beastly outriders...
June 22-27, 2001: More stories and the true definition of "Wrecked"...
June 14-20, 2001: Going back in time, more sparrows and now baseball, another story drafted...
June 8-13, 2001: Stories, early mornings, a rescue, books of magic, a birthday, and a sparrow or two...
June 1-7, 2001: A brand new start, and restart, and restart...
May 23-31, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 13 -- At Dare's End...
May 16-22, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 12 -- 1,000 words written, one novel sent out to a publisher!
May 9-15, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 11 -- 8,000 words written, one new story written and sent out, and another pro-level acceptance!
May 2-8, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 10 -- One novel revised, another one sent out to an agent!
April 25-May 1, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 9 -- 374 novel pages revised, and the first round of revisions is done!
April 18-24, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 8 -- 320 novel pages done, one pro sale made!
April 11-17, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 7 -- 296 (!) novel pages done
April 4-9, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 6 -- 202 novel pages done
March 28-April 3, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 5 -- 184 novel pages done
March 21-27, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 4 -- 132 novel pages done and another story revision
March 14-20, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 3 -- 106 novel pages done, a story revision, and half of another revision done...
March 7-13, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 2 -- 73 pages done...
March 1-6, 2001: Novel Dare, Week 1 -- 25 pages done...
Feb. 16-28, 2001: Leaving the stories behind for Daring novel adventures...
Feb. 1-13, 2001: Still in the graveyard, but looking to the autobahn and beyond...
Jan. 15-31, 2001: Hanging out at the graveyard with the angels and company
Jan. 2-13, 2001: More ideas than you can shake a mouse at
Nov. 2000-Jan. 2001: WotF Reading and Signing Journal
Jan. 1, 2001: 2001 - Goals for the New Year
Dec. 31, 2000: 2000 - The Year in Review
Dec. 18-31, 2000: Finishing up, at the last minute!
Dec. 1-15, 2000: Writing, one hour at a time
Nov. 2000: Rolling with the changes, and the punches
Oct.-Nov. 2000 Story-Writing Dare: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7.
Sep. 19-30, 2000: Still buzzing after all this time
Sep 10-17, 2000: Writers of the Future Journal
Sep. 1-9, 2000: How is it September already?
Aug. 14-28, 2000: Two in a row!
Aug. 3-8, 2000: Slowly but surely