Loscon is about a month away. Yesterday we, the Committee (or at least most of us), had our last in-person meeting at the LAX Marriott hotel. This is where the convention will be held on Thanksgiving weekend, Friday through Saturday. …
The owners of the company I work for live in Malibu. Occasionally I’m asked to take papers over there to get their signature if they’re not coming into the office. That area has peacocks. I stopped to take a picture …
A week ago, I didn’t even know there was a watermelon festival. But a friend of ours, Frank, not only told us about it, but paid for our admission. Thank you, Frank! This was out by Hansen Dam in Los …
This weekend, after a two-year absence, Star Wars Celebration returned. This is a convention that moves around the country and for it’s return it came back to the Anaheim Convention Center. Again on a limited budget, we only had tickets …
No One Answer to a Complicated Subject Last week, we went over the question of stress affecting one’s creative writing. Speaking for my own personal life experience (which is the only point of view I can offer our readers) …
Stress vs Creative Writing – No One Wins When Dennis told me this morning he didn’t have any ideas on what to write about in this week’s blog, I immediately thought of something that would be a good topic to …
Yesterday, Kris and I were lucky enough to be invited by The Left Coast Mahjong, Art Show and Lego Cabal (friends of ours through Loscon) to go to “The Art of The Brick” exhibit at the California Science Center https://californiasciencecenter.org/ …
In my first post in this series, I wrote about why the environment you write in is important and how and where you find this most important place. In the second part, I delved into taking that environment and making …
Still Chasing Dragonflies Hello, it’s Kristine again. Dennis is getting a much-deserved break and gearing up for this coming week’s GLAWS Writer’s Conference, so I’m back with a more in-depth look at last week’s topic of The Natural Habitat of …
Meanwhile, While Dennis is out Dragonfly Hunting… Hi all. It’s Kristine Cherry again, coming to you from the Dragonfly Temple. What is that, you may ask? It’s a reference not only to my work-in-progress trilogy entitled, “The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles”, …