Isaiah's Attic

I'm happy to report that Three Crow Press will be publishing my story "Quietly Into the Night" in a future issue! I've had a couple of near misses with this one, so it's nice to find it a home, and such an attractive home at that. :-) There's been precious little for me in the way of positive feedback these last few months, so this one feels especially nice.

Is anyone else watching The Prisoner on AMC? I caught the first two parts tonight (all four hours) and wow, what a fantastic show. My expectations were pretty high going into it (hard not to have high expectations when the leads are played by Jim Caviezel and Ian Mckellen), but it's even better than I was hoping it would be. I kept turning to my wife during the commercial breaks and saying, I love this! She wasn't as blown away as I was, so I guess your milage will vary, but I say check it out if you haven't already.

I'm so far behind with Nanowrimo (only 10653 words so far) that I've pretty much resigned myself to not "winning" this time around (my first time, for the record). I"m not going to quit or anything, but at this point it's more about getting to know my characters intimately and sorting out the plot for future rewrites than it is about hitting 50k. I'm glad to see that others are doing well, though. I've actually seen a few people who have word counts four times as high as mine. It boggles the mind, it does.

In other news, I almost wracked up my new SUV this afternoon, less than two weeks after buying it. I was halfway through making a left on an amber when a woman in a Rav4 decided to punch it to beat the red. Luckily, we both hit our brakes hard and ended up just trading a little bit of paint, black from me and white from her. I've never actually been in an accident while driving, so it was almost a very nasty first for me. My poor shiny bumper, though! I'll have to buy some touch-up paint tomorrow and give it a quick once over.

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