Found!
My lovely, talented, and amazing daughter found my notebook in a place where I would never have thought to look for it and have no idea how it might have migrated there: a bag of toys rounded up and...
View ArticleHappy birthday a moi
I spent it flying. With two kids. It was even more fun than you can imagine. (As John Rogers and George RR Martin put it, that’s the point. I was so clearly the harried mother of two in the pre-board...
View ArticleSome fun links
I keep opening these links and then losing where I got them from, but here are some good links I’ve found: Life? It can be a musical. At college, at any rate. (Wait! I remember this one. Via Suburban...
View ArticleCounterfeiting in our time
Sorry, haven’t been around much — both kids have been off school, and I have done such things as go to Bonfante Gardens twice in two weeks. (And boy, are my arms tired.) And now after our break it’s...
View ArticleToday’s cool discovery
Now, maybe everyone else in this area drives a whole bunch more than I do and they already knew about this, but I just discovered one of the coolest features of living in this area. So there we are,...
View ArticleToday’s cool card trick
Via Commute by Bike, it’s the World’s Best Card Trick! (Okay, I am so lame I don’t know how to embed YouTube video. Sigh.) (Oh, it turns out YouTube is lame and doesn’t support MT yet. Carry on.)
View ArticleTo school by bike
Simon’s preschool is 4 miles away. I usually take the freeway there, surface streets back, and it’s 4 miles either way. And it takes 15 minutes, door to door. Today, Sophia was off school and we biked...
View ArticleBSG vs. Lost
Vote for your favorite hotties. (Yes, this is what I spend my time finding.)
View ArticleScary days
I woke up this morning — better would be to say, “I extracted myself from a comfortable and warm bed simply because a loud noise urged me to and not because I was, say, ready” — and dressed quickly...
View ArticleThe joys of air travel
I took the kids and flew to Chicago for the weekend for what is euphemistically known as “a family emergency.” Ah, so this is what people talk about when they talk about family emergencies. I don’t...
View ArticleFree at Amazon
You Know Who I Am is free for a little while longer at Amazon. Pick up a copy!
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Results from the Free Days at Amazon
So, I recently offered my book for free for 5 days at Amazon. And here’s what happened. But first, a little history lesson. § A few years ago, the term “Self-publishing” meant bad. Self-publishing was...
View ArticleSoftware writers need
1. Scrivener You know this. Just go and buy it already. Lots of writers feel this way about it. If you do a web search on “scrivener is the best”, you get a lot of responses, all of which you can...
View ArticleSwitching genders
This morning I read Dan Fienberg’s “gut reaction” to the pilot for “The Blacklist,” a new series coming to NBC this fall starring James Spader. He doesn’t call it a review, because pilots can and do...
View ArticleBreaking Bad thoughts, on the eve of the finale
I’m going to sign off the Internet tomorrow morning, because I don’t want to risk being spoiled on the finale of “Breaking Bad” before I’ve had a chance to watch it. Yes, me! The Queen of Spoilers...
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Men need to
(ETA: I have no idea why the template formatting is so screwed up on this entry. Possibly because I had to re-edit the pictures and then re-upload. It’s making me crazy.) I ran across a fabulous AdWeek...
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A favorite Scrivener feature
Since everyone’s been posting stories about how they use Scrivener (the world’s most awesome writing software), I figured I would join in the fun and post one thing about one of its best features. So...
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The treadmill desk
My regular cardio routine fell apart in December, for a variety of reasons (the weather, illness, holidays, etc, etc.). This was: unacceptable. Not just because of the cardio benefits (although those...
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Using Scrivener for mystery writing
You can find tons of tips and tricks for how different writers use Scrivener in different ways. The best thing about this application is that it’s so darn versatile. I have no idea how Keith Blount...
View ArticleSurprising absolutely no one…
I’m pretty much moving my blog over to dianepatterson.com. Join me over there for blog entries, book info, and other random and assorted things that occur to me. — Diane p.s.: the email address I’ve...
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