I woke up this morning with a story in my head. This isn’t the first time that has happened, though I think this story actually has legs. The frustrating thing about such stories is that I started writing it in my sleep. I actually dreamt I was sitting in front of the computer constructing sentences and plotting the whole thing out. Some of that is inevitably lost. The good part is that I managed to hold onto several scenes and I can reconstitute them in some form or another.

I find it very exciting.

Changing the theme made the missing posts appear, so I guess it’s a theme issue. A shame, really, because I liked that theme.

Ah, well – time to start looking again…

For some reason, my first WFC post doesn’t show up on the main page, though you can see it on the sidebar and navigate to it. Weird. I have no idea why. There is one there if people missed it. It posted to LJ, though, so who knows.

After facing distraction yesterday, I managed today to get out for t a little while to a local coffee shop to write.  It was good. I know it’s a cliche, but writing somewhere else does tend to focus me. I managed to make some progress on my latest story, one which has decided lately to give me some trouble.

The only problem is that my laptop battery isn’t really the best. I get maybe an hour out of it when it’s not plugged in. That’s not very good. And the coffee shop doesn’t have available outlets. I either need to invest in a secondary battery, or need to find another place to write.

My India report is still forthcoming. It’s just a lot to filter through. It was a very personal trip for me and finding a way to write that down has been difficult. But I’ll try. With pictures.

More to come later…

So that last post was meant to go up last night, but I forgot to hit Publish.

As promised, though, here are just a few pictures from the con – mostly of the Pirate Reading. Thanks to David and Eugene for taking those.

WFC 2007 Pix

I’m not going to post a long trip report, but I will say that I got back from World Fantasy a little while ago and it was phenomenal. It was the best con I’ve been to. A big part of that is all the wonderful people that I got to meet and see and hang out with in Saratoga Springs. Another big part is that I got to see and hold the Shimmer Magazine Pirate Issue (with my story, “The Furies”) and I even participated in a group reading for the issue on Saturday. I was nervous, but I toughed it out and all in all I think it went very well. It was the first con I’ve been to of this kind where I felt I really belonged.

India posts will be forthcoming, but I just wanted to mention the con before. I may even post a few pictures.