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The Fusty Blob: October 2008

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Sunday, October 12, 2008. Life isn't fair. We come from dust and return to dust, which is depressing enough. But then, in between all that, we have to dust! I have cleaned my writing room- or "office", to sound more professional- ridding it of stacks and stacks of printed out piles of old manuscripts and indeterminate paper stuff, not to mention buried cat toys. And dust. I have dusted. What is that about? Later this week: the living room! Saturday, October 4, 2008. This past week, someone whose opinion ...

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The Fusty Blob: May 2009

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Thursday, May 28, 2009. Someone recently suggested I think about what might have happened to my books if they had been written by a current famous award-winning young adult novelist. At first I just chuckled, then thought,. So I pulled on this famous author's sparkly celebrity jacket- nice buttons! And had some fun. First, of course, my books soared in both popularity and critical acclaim. Amazon practically toppled over from the sudden weight of my fameiness. And the fans! Of $ to clean! And lets not ta...

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The Fusty Blob: May 2008

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Thursday, May 29, 2008. I'm wobbling on the brink of self-pity and despair today, so I will try to climb out of the pit I have created for myself (but I like it! One clawed toe at a time. Sunlight is always useful in the treatment of darkness, right? I confess my Fusty Blob does indeed feel fusty of late. Not many posts. No pictures. No neat graphics or fun music. No anything that the "cool" people would want to read. Wah! That's the wail of the perpetual outsider . . . ). I am, however-. My own likes an...

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The Fusty Blob: September 2009

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Saturday, September 5, 2009. Bon Voyage, Fusty! You will find me at Shy Oyster, http:/ shyoyster.blogspot.com. Come visit. I've only just moved in. You know how that goes: boxes everywhere, furniture crowded together in odd places, paintings leaning against the walls, nothing in the refrigerator. So please excuse the mess and come on over! I'll still be just me, but you can't have everything, right? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Bon Voyage, Fusty!

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The Fusty Blob: April 2009

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. I'm flapping and flopping around in a big puddle of anxiety. I hate it when that happens, as it's terribly uncomfortable. I'm just anxious about (flap flap flop) pretty much everything at the moment, but I will try to focus on one specific. Nothing new, of course, just my currently dim author aura. (Low wattage, that one.) I am not commercial. Enough, either in my work or in my aspect, to attract attention. So, dim dim dim it goes. Sunday, April 12, 2009. I am passing time befo...

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The Fusty Blob: March 2009

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Saturday, March 28, 2009. Said Nora, with a monumental crash . . . That might not be the exact line, but the image from NOISY NORA by Rosemary Wells (I'm thinking of the original illustrations) where Nora, the little mouse jealous of her big sister and new baby brother, hiding from her parents to make them worry and come looking for her, triumphantly bursts out of her hiding place, flinging open the closet door . . . is priceless, as they say. In a time of buildings collapsing, meteorites hitting, dinosa...

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The Fusty Blob: Squish! Under the Foot of the Giant

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Thursday, June 18, 2009. Under the Foot of the Giant. I can add nothing intelligent to the Google takeover of the literary universe, so there is no need for you, dear reader, to wait for my keen insight. There isn't one. Mostly, I just want to squeeze my eyes tightly shut and wish the conundrum away. But that's not possible. And it's not a question of. And, to quote the character played by Mel Gibson in. What's not to love? You, dear reader, have probably detected a tone of cynicism in my words. Yes,...

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The Fusty Blob: December 2008

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Sunday, December 28, 2008. Years Past, Year Present. I remember how insulted I felt when I first encountered the phrase "content provider" being used in place of "author." Changes were surely coming, cattle-prodded along matter-of-factly by trumpeters of all things digital, but I deeply resented the denigration of my creative work. Of course there are many ways to be creative, digital and not. I didn't believe, even then, that all truly creative people belonged over. Now I am more adjusted to the changin...

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The Fusty Blob: Uppity Downity

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. I'm flapping and flopping around in a big puddle of anxiety. I hate it when that happens, as it's terribly uncomfortable. I'm just anxious about (flap flap flop) pretty much everything at the moment, but I will try to focus on one specific. Nothing new, of course, just my currently dim author aura. (Low wattage, that one.) I am not commercial. Enough, either in my work or in my aspect, to attract attention. So, dim dim dim it goes. I find your staying power and catalogue of wor...