Author | Joseph L. Selby

Tag: yippee

  • Find the Fun in the Boring

    I wrote chapter 2 for 7Sac today. This is a big deal because it’s the first fully original chapter of this version. Pieces of chapter 1 got held over from my first attempt and much more of it came from the wind sprint I wrote. Chapter 2 was wholly fresh. I actually tried to write…

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  • We have the tools! We have the talent!

    My wife got me what could be the greatest stocking stuffer of all time. Yes, that is the greatest utensil ever made, the spork. But it’s not just any spork. It’s a titanium spork. That’s right. Titanium. Now you may ask yourself, why would anyone need a titanium spork? And I would say to you,…

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  • Cover Cover Cover

    I love me some covers. Until I have an actual published book to pimp in the Inkwell, I put up those books that I have finished a first draft on. But to be put up, they must have a cover. We will not have text about books that do not accompany covers! It’s not a…

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  • Let’s Talk About Sex

    Tiffany Reisz is one of Sara Megibow’s erotica authors. She wrote a guest post for Fiction Groupie that just blew me away, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. Now, as a liberal adult, I have been instructed to be open about sex, and I am. So is my wife. We’re cool…

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  • Hellllooooooooo Nurse!

    What’s that? Julia Stiles is in an ad for Stoli vodka, and she’s plastered all around Boston North Station? What’s that? My train is boarding? Ummmm, I think I’ll take the next one. I could sit here awhile longer.

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  • Dream a Little Dream of Me

    In my last semester of college, I participated in one of the most influential classes of my university career: Senior Theatre Capstone. It was a discussion course required to graduate with a theatre degree (every arts degree had one: I took something similar for my English degree). It was lead by the department head and…

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  • The Tlot Thickens

    As I mentioned on Friday, my productivity fell to shit when I joked about being the anonymous subject of an agent’s impending rejection. I checked my email over and over and over again until the day came to a close, and it was time to go home. Of course, there was no rush to go…

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  • Echoes of Halloween

    This is our first year in our new townhouse and as such, we did not know how many kids would stop by (10-12 was the final count). We WAY overbought on candy. Suggestions of taking the left overs into work have been shot down by the missus. The plan is to keep the bag until…

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  • 50,000 words

    If not for a dead battery, I would have passed 50,000 words yesterday in my WIP. I instead passed it this morning. Making a similar comment on Twitter yesterday, I pondered why I put so much stock in 50,000 words. Certainly it doesn’t represent the end point of the manuscript nor the midpoint. I have…

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  • Fried Ocher

    I was talking to Elizabeth Poole yesterday who had been absent for a week because she thought she deserved to vacation in another state rather than hang out and talk to me over IM. Silly girl. Anyway, she asked me for an update on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. I didn’t have much to report. I had invoked…

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