Dreams of Cold Fusion - the beginning of Chapter the Second
Here's how the next chapter will beginWaking up held that moment of dissonance between one reality and the next – which was doubly so when the witch waking up was an Apprentice Dreamweaver. The room...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Horcrux
Here's the other story I'm working on.The Unexpected HorcruxI know that Harry expected that we’d find and destroy the Horcruces on our own, just the three of us, but I knew from the beginning that we’d...
View ArticleDreams of Cold Fusion - Chapter the Second - middle
Okay, a little bit more now - courtesy of today's Metro ride home.Waking up held that moment of dissonance between one reality and the next – which was doubly so when the witch waking up was an...
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Dreams of Cold Fusion (Chapter the Second) has gone off to the betas.The Unexpected Horcrux (Chapter the First) has been posted at...
View ArticleDreams of Cold Fusion - Chapter the Third (WIP)
Here's what's in the old hopper to date...She’d never given any thought to Puddifoot’s when she was in school; the boys who thought that she was a girl at all didn’t think that she was the sort of girl...
View ArticleI'm back...
More or less...Towards the end of June, I took a week off for a most unusual family reunion. My Mom bankrolled a cruise for my family, my sisters, their families and significant others. I spent a...
View ArticleIn praise of -- Parts
Tech rant ahead.I've had two unsatisfactory experiences of late with things that I've purchased - I've been using a bread machine for the past eleven years and I'm now on my fourth machine. With bread...
View ArticleOrder of the Phoenix (spoiler free)
As usual, the book was better.The movie is visually sumptuous.Mimublous Mimbletonia makes a cameo appearance.Luna is not quite as I imagined her, but she's quite effective.The Thestrals are not as...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Horcrux - Chapter the Second (installment)
I've got a few more scenes in this chapter to go yet, but here's a big down-payment.The Unexpected Horcrux Chapter the Second I normally didn’t think of myself as an eavesdropper, but some...
View ArticleQuo Vadis, Kokopelli?
Quo Vadis, Kokopelli? (translation - where are you going?) I began to write HP fan-fiction during the long interregnum between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. I participated in the After the...
View ArticleKokopelli sighting
I've been a tad busy of late - I'm still working on the final installment of The Unexpected Horcrux, but truth be told, I'm not particularly inspired to write fan-fic at the moment. My regular writers...
View ArticleWhat I'm watching in the fan-fic world
I really am trying to finish the last installment of The Unexpected Horcrux, but ...Stories that I'm watching, with comments:Harry Potter and the Toll of Destiny - by Legobean - archived on...
View ArticleSHORTS! Call for drabbles! SHORTS!
Okay, now that you're awake.Life has been interesting at Casa de Cornell of late - but I don't want to write about that.So, what do you want me to write?Ask questions or set up scenarios - if I can,...
View ArticleUp my nose with a rubber hose (Sleep Apnea and CPAP)
No, we're not having a "welcome back, Kotter" flashback.I've been living with obstructive sleep apnea for quite some time. A couple of years ago, I had an operation on my schnooz, hoping that it would...
View ArticleShorts - as in call for
You know what to do,,,I've had the yen to write, but with work and the Christmas rush, I've had no time to engage a serious writing project of length - which means, of course, that I'm more than...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Horcrux - Chapter the Third
I've not forgotten the challenges I requested recently - I have the beginnings of a Jasmine does St Lucia day story, and another missing moment from HP-HBP, Harry and Luna after the Christmastime Slug...
View ArticleWhat I've been reading - or in my case - listening to...
I've not been doing much writing of late.I have, however, been doing a lot with audio.The local libraries have a lot of books on cd, and, better yet, audio downloads, which in most cases I burn to CD...
View ArticleNow What? (a Deathly Hallows ficlet)
Waking up in a bed, a real bed, after a year of cold, hunger and too short, rickety camp beds and sleeping bags strewn over stones and tree roots was disorienting. The discomfort in his bladder was...
View ArticleNow What? Version 2
There were some niggling bits about the first draft that I didn't care for, so before I send it to my beta, I thought I'd post it here again. Very subtle changes.Waking up in a bed, a real bed, after...
View ArticleMy ears are full (pleasantly) of audiobooks
My youngest (now 12, soon to be 13) is a girl who talks - a lot. This post, however, deals with the audio books I've been listening to of late.On the whole, I enjoy hearing what she's thinking, but...
View ArticleUp periscope (books, movies and potato salad)
An update on this and that...On the whole, it was a pleasant Memorial Day weekend.I made a double batch of potato salad at my wife's request. One of the few areas where our tastes diverge, she likes...
View ArticleYet another review - Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
As you may know, my commute lends itself to audiobooks - some of which are great, some of which are not-so-great...This is one of the not so great ones.This book is set in modern day Britain - with a...
View ArticleKnow your stuff - a kitchen warning
We had an interesting mishap the other day. Whilst cooking dinner for another family, my wife took a pyrex pan from the oven and placed it on the burner of the stove. Next, that burner was mistakenly...
View ArticleWill write for charity
Well, this was unusual...I was asked to participate in an auction in which my rabid loyal readers would bid in an auction for a bit of Kokopelli fanfic.Particulars are here...
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