I filmed my video interview at S&S’s Studio 4 today. Apparently, I’m a natural. I think what it really is is that I spend most of my time alone editing and writing so when I finally get around other people I’m like a puppy in a window barking and wagging his tail at the people on the other side 🙂 They’re aiming to have it out by the middle of October. As soon as they do I’ll post a link.

I do, although until the last year or so, I was never great at actually following through on them. At some point I finally decided to take my lists more seriously, and also to create lists that were actually doable. Gone are the days when I’d write stuff like “finish the novel” and instead have been replaced by “finish that scene.” Now that I’ve got a handle on making these lists and checking things off as I complete them, I’ve even started assigning time frames for my tasks. This might sound silly or unnecessary to some of you, but my life-style has been one of essentially excessive freedom for the last few years, and as marvelous as that sounds, too much freedom is another way of saying not enough structure. So I’m building up the structure around me, setting up waypoints and markers throughout my day that take the place of the structure I’d have if I commuted to an office. I used to rebel at this, but now I welcome it.

Good grief, I think I’m growing up 🙂

Uh, well not really, but next week I’ll be taping a video interview at S&S’s studio to come out hopefully right around the time Ashes hits stores. We’re still working up the questions so if you have any suggestions by all means fire away. I’ll try to reveal as much as I can without giving anything big away, and there are a few big surprises in store.

I’m hoping that will be the case. At the moment, I am still learning how WordPress works. I thought I had the comments function on, but it doesn’t seem to be working yet. In the meantime, enjoy the new site and feel free to, um, keep your comments to yourself 🙂

Hold the phone! It works! Apparently you just click on the number in parenthesis beside the word comments or click the subject line for the post and it takes you to a reply page. Cool. It’s not even 8:30am and I’ve already learned something. Oh, and the other thing I’ve learned is that while blueberries shrivel to hard, little pellets if left in the fridge too long, strawberries turn to mush which in turn grows fuzzy mold (or maybe it’s moldy fuzz).

I’m not just a fantasy author, I’m also a well of inane, obvious, and exceptionally trivial facts. Tomorrow, I’ll examine the vegetable crisper. I don’t think I’ve looked in there since I bought an onion…in March.