Jordan Castillo Price's Blog, page 96
May 4, 2009
I'll bet you wonder...
• what I do to amuse myself
• how I spent my time before writing consumed my life
• where I come up with my characters
• who I'd like to kill at my day job
The answers to all these questions -- and many more -- are on Reviews by Jessewave today! Don't miss this interview!
• how I spent my time before writing consumed my life
• where I come up with my characters
• who I'd like to kill at my day job
The answers to all these questions -- and many more -- are on Reviews by Jessewave today! Don't miss this interview!
May 3, 2009
Is there an (animal) doctor in the house?
I'm trying to figure out what it would be like to work behind-the-scenes at an emergency vet hospital -- specifically, if I had one of my characters working there and his co-workers were harassing him. Is it plausible he'd have a locker they could screw around with if the place were big enough? Might there be a shower so people don't have to go home with animal stink on them?
The two sources I'm currently considering are 1. firsthand knowledge -- a good friend was a vet tech but it was a small pl
The two sources I'm currently considering are 1. firsthand knowledge -- a good friend was a vet tech but it was a small pl
April 29, 2009
Adventures in Lawn and Cat Grooming
Today is a work-at-home day for me, so I had a couple of appointments scheduled. One was a landscaper for a quote to fix the godawful-ugly front of my house, and the other for a mobile pet groomer to come shave my Persian.
The landscaper seemed happy to do what he could to keep costs cheap. When I described to him the sorts of things I wanted around my house other than what's there -- hippy dippy things like sunflowers instead of discolored white marble chips and three peonies that look nice for
The landscaper seemed happy to do what he could to keep costs cheap. When I described to him the sorts of things I wanted around my house other than what's there -- hippy dippy things like sunflowers instead of discolored white marble chips and three peonies that look nice for
April 28, 2009
Promiscuous Chickens
Geez, I've cracked open fertilized eggs two mornings in a row now. Randy birds.
April 27, 2009
More research where you least expect it
In a character's backstory, I needed his mother to die in a plausible way on a farm. Since I have lunch with my dairy farmer friend every Monday (she, like me, works many jobs -- we both work at the library and she is also clerk of her township) I figured I'd ask her how a woman would die on a farm.
I'm glad my notion was validated that it's more often men who die farming. Another of my good friends lost her dad that way. He stuck his head between two pieces of machinery, and one of them moved. (
I'm glad my notion was validated that it's more often men who die farming. Another of my good friends lost her dad that way. He stuck his head between two pieces of machinery, and one of them moved. (
April 25, 2009
Oh boy, four-figure writing days
Dang, I've been struggling hard with word count lately.
I've started work on Partners in Crime 5 and it's like a big burden's been lifted off me, and my prior 500-word-struggle days have become yay-1000-word days. Which is good, cos I don't think I could call myself a writer if the 500-word days became the norm.
My Mac's been acting screwy which is really distressing. I'm trying to pinpoint what the problem is. It could be something with an audio driver, or lately I'm thinking maybe it's Safari. A
I've started work on Partners in Crime 5 and it's like a big burden's been lifted off me, and my prior 500-word-struggle days have become yay-1000-word days. Which is good, cos I don't think I could call myself a writer if the 500-word days became the norm.
My Mac's been acting screwy which is really distressing. I'm trying to pinpoint what the problem is. It could be something with an audio driver, or lately I'm thinking maybe it's Safari. A
April 22, 2009
Clare London on Packing Heat!
My special guest on Packing Heat today is Clare London! We talk about finding time to write when our schedules are filled to capacity, and when we don't actually feel like writing. The conversation also veered into how publishing turned out to be different than we thought it would be, back when we were starry-eyed newbies with all our hopes, dreams and expectations intact! :DThis is a chat to be bookmarked and returned to again and again when writer's block looms. I feel inspired when I hear ab
April 18, 2009
Asus Eee anyone?
Okay, I know I've never given my Asus eee a glowing review anywhere. I can't figure out how to install software on it. It gets hot. OpenOffice crashes. And whenever my fingers or palms brush anywhere in the remote region of the keypad, the cursor hops to a random point in my document and starts deleting things.
That said, it's a cool machine for travel. When we went on vacation in San Francisco, we really got our money's worth out of it. We watched a lot of YouTube, and I was able to keep up on m
That said, it's a cool machine for travel. When we went on vacation in San Francisco, we really got our money's worth out of it. We watched a lot of YouTube, and I was able to keep up on m
April 13, 2009
Because you never know when research will strike...
So this was unexpected awesomeness. We were driving back from the "Birthday Town" (if you subscribed to JCP News, you'd know what that meant) and we came across a state park that was big enough that the door was probably staffed, and we could buy our 2009 vehicle admission stickers. We live down the street from a park, but we never seem to show up when there's a ranger in the hut. And, we reasoned, this big park might take credit cards.
We drove up to the building and the ranger said sure, but we
We drove up to the building and the ranger said sure, but we
