Banff was great –


I got about 4000 words written, which wasn’t bad considering the new technology I was using. It worked fairly well, too. Mostly, it understood the text I dictated, though I had more trouble with the navigation commands. Still, getting text down was what I really needed, and I was able to do some edits left-handed, afterward, so it all worked out. Still have to learn more!

BTW, congratulations to everyone who was nominated for an Aurora this year. I personally know every nominee for Best Work, Long Form – Leslie, Barb, Ed, Rob and Hayden. Will make voting VERY tough! Also, congratulations to Ivan, who was nominated for short story. Not sure who else was nominated, as the official list isn’t out yet, but already I’m thinking I better book my membership to Keycon!

Sorry – website as been down


But the good news is, I sold another story! “The Director’s Cut” will appear in Tesseracts Fourteen this fall! Yay!

The other good news is, I am off to Banff today for a writers’ retreat for 2 days – will be fun, and I hope to teach my computer (and myself) to use Dragonspeak (MacDictate) so I can stop typing with my left hand. Yay!

Did I tell you I revised and posted my novella?


My crit group will help me with it in a month. This week, I got the Mac version of Dragonspeak (Mac Dictate) and got my system upgraded so I can use it. I will install Mac Dictate next weekend and start training it (and me) how to use it — so when I get my crits back on my novella I can do something with them, and so I can benefit from the writing retreat I’m going to in a couple of weeks.

It’s Done!


Despite months of tendonitis, my novella is done! Well, rough draft. But as I promised to submit it to my writers group Tuesday, at least I have something to submit. Yay, me!