So it's almost midnight ... Do you know where your keyboard is?

Day job wise, it's been a rough week. It's going to be more beans and less meat next week if I want to still have some money for the writer's conference next month.

On the other hand, I managed to make a new personal record for fiction writing, 1K in 4 hours. I did real well writing this week -- and it had nothing to do with the extra free time.

In fact, I usually do lousy when I don't know when my next meal is coming. Writing is a machine that runs on mental gears you see, stress tends to gum up the works. This time, stress, family and general distractions could not detour me. Let's hope for the same next week.

But getting up early, putting my butt in the seat and typing away got some results. As it did for this Del Ray writer Jason M. Hough. Check out his story of "butt-in-seat-itude."

I've got a boycott question. Anyone got an answer?

Regardless of political affiliation, I get how boycotting the Ender's Game movie works. Card's listed a producer and stands to make a good profit from book reprints. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Boycotting WorldCon over what Texas politicians do? I don't see how the gesture sends a message that Texas politicians would notice or care about. My gut says that it punishes the fans more than anyone else.