Bloggin'

Over at Book View Cafe we have a blog where various members write about various things; the Amazon/Macmillan dustup and the Google Settlement mess get a good deal of space. But just as interesting are writers writing about their lives or their enthusiasms, their geekery or cookery, and, of course, about writing.

And sometimes the posts quite inadvertently seem to comment on or support each other. sartorias has a nice piece today about using observed emotional responses in writing, and I have a piece on observing oddities in real life as an inspiration or springboard for writing. Serendipity at it's finest. Go read!

In the Proud Consciousness and all that...

I have today:

• defrosted the downstairs freezer
• wrapped up and put away all the Christmas lights which had been huddled in a pile since I took them down
• made pot roast so the house smells yummy
• cut up all the gazillions of cardboard boxes left over from Christmas
• bought garish fabric for a special project
• groomed the Nebula Nominations tally (that is, moved things from the place they oughtn't be to the place they should be, combined nominations on one line, found vexed oddities to rule upon, and so forth...)

And am now lying on the hot herbal pack hoping that my back will stop saying rude things about me.

Maybe it's time for a glass of wine.