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On a routine expedition

I hated everyone in the coffee joint today, because they were all selfish and obnoxious and also I didn't like them very much.

But there's a park a few blocks away, and it's one of my favorite places. The view is nice, but what I love about it is the sound. The beach is covered with smooth, round rocks, and the clatter they make as the waves push them and pull them is strangely beautiful and a little bit eerie.

Also, squadrons of pelicans often soar by, and since they look like pteradons, it'...

On tusk

Writing a scene involving a mammoth herd today.

From Last

Not telling anyone what to do, but ...

I sure do like IndieBound, the merchant arm of the non-profit American Booksellers Association, where you can buy books (print and electronic) from indie booksellers and make wish lists and read book reviews and such without fear of getting gobbled by piranhas.

(Piranhas? Amazon? GET IT????)

Trudy's backpack

Went to kung fu on Thursday. Went to the gym on Friday. Kicking muscles very, very sore. Upper-body weight-bearing muscles, not so much. Conclusion: Blame kung fu.

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Here's another illustration I did for Kid vs. Squid (note: these don't appear in the book). This is Trudy's backpack. Trudy is a resident of Las Huesas, California, a weird California beach town where odd things are happening, largely due to the presence of the Atlanteans who wash up on the beach every summer. Trudy is sort of a...

Choir poll results

Thanks for clicking on my "Are We All in the Choir?" poll yesterday.

As it stands now, 73 people voted. Just a hair shy of 85% of you said you write fiction, and 15% of you said you don't. Some of the "don'ts" commented that they used to write fiction but have stopped, and a few who said they write fiction commented that their fiction comes out in screenplays or role-playing games.

What I'm taking away from this is confirmation that a huge majority of my LJ friends and readers are writers. So ...

Are we all in the choir?

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Watch the knees, kid.

Hey, I finally made it to a kung fu class last night! First time in almost a year!

I'm taking it through San Diego State University, which is weird, because I am old and college kids are very young. It was different when I worked at Arizona State, because whenever they got too young or I got too old I would just go back to my cubicle and focus on electronifying their educations. Or when I was teaching, it was clear that they were supposed to be young and I was supposed to be old, because that...

Tommy and Dicky

I'm kinda thinking of doing some sort of promotion-ish thing with illustrations for Kid vs. Squid. Maybe a web comic or something. I dunno. It depends on what else I've got going on, like writing another book or digging up/doing some other kind of remunerative work. Also, I might find I just don't have the energy or heart for it. Things take energy. They take heart. One only has so much of either. One needs to keep energy and heart in reserve for the important things in life, such as watching...

Don't care why there's no sun in the sky

From Last

I don't know for sure if I write better under stormy skies than I do under sunny, but I do know I like writing under stormy skies a whole bunch.

From San Diego 2010 pics

thank you

You guys have been awesome with the cat advice. Seriously, thank you.

Except for tim_pratt , who's trying to mail me his Hell beast.