Goal: Six stories or story-length novel snippets. Accomplishment: One 8,000 word story based on a premise that I’ve been kicking around for years. I thought it was going to be a novel, and it just wasn’t. Now I’m not sure it’s even a short story. Paul tells me it’s goodContinue Reading

So far I’m still three for three on the write-a-thon — three weeks, three stories. And, it’s been a while since we had a real cartoon controversy. This one is a little different, as it does not (as yet) involve any violence. To summarize: The New Yorker’s next cover isContinue Reading

I can’t honestly say I didn’t see this coming, but I still feel like this Slate essay, which claims WALL-E goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse misses the point in a dozen places. In case you don’t know the basic premise, 700 years ago theContinue Reading

End of first week: June 28 So far so good, as the first week’s story was completed, critiqued, and into rewrites by the time I broke for a barbecue and zombies. The second week’s story is going to be a bit of a challenge, as there is a big ole’Continue Reading

I am doing the write-a-thon for Clarion West this year. If you would like to sponsor me, the page is here: http://www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/JulieMcGalliard I am once again requesting sponsorships in extremely lucky multiples of thirteen. Just because I happen to have Excel open, these are: 13 26 39 52 65 78Continue Reading

Is coming home to find a bunch of hatchling spiders dangling in the branches of the forked sundew in the carnivorous plants terrarium. I didn’t get a picture, since my digital camera seems to be dead, but the hatchlings looked more or less like this: And the sundew looked likeContinue Reading