Category: friday pint

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

Halfway through January already. Hard to believe. Is it like that for you?

Here are three long posts from the archives, all in some way contributing to extended conversation. My favorite kind. Lots of navel-gazing this round — I was in a ruminative mood. That happens (smile). I actually wish I had time to wander around in my own sandbox right now: instead I feel like I’m running on some endless track, around and around and around.

I hope your days are less loopy, in all ways, than mine are right now.

Enjoy these pints.

• Going public (July 2004) — Throwing down, with feeling.
• Please, can I go there too? (July 2004) — Writing, with feeling.
• Because I want it (August 2004) — Continuing the conversation about going public.

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

And Friday is finally back to being Friday again, instead of having to come out wearing Saturday or even Sunday clothes. I’m glad we’re past the holidays and I can finally get my days straight again.

I hope your first week of ’09 has been a good one.

• Movie Solitaire (June 2004) — If Solitaire were a movie… and it will be, if I have any influence with the universe at all. But that’s a future post.
• Ambivalence (July 2004) — A ramble on ambivalence in Solitaire, irony, management… and on the elevator scene. We had quite a conversation about this a few months ago, as well. It seems to push people’s buttons, for sure.
• Cover me (July 2004) — A good image keeps on giving.

Enjoy.

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

And look, here’s Friday come around again. It’s been a day of screenplaying, hence the lateness of the post. In the archive world it’s May, summer and warm, and I hope these pints may warm you a little in the winter of today.

• The bonds of experience (May 2004) — How the negative connects us and divides us, too.
• Taking care (May 2004) — Strategies for snarky days.
• Send me an angel (May 2004) — NPR me, baby.

Enjoy your weekend.

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint Archives.

It’s been snowing in Seattle this week. Combined with the December end-of-month slowdown and the financial crisis hunker-down, I feel as though I’m living in a cocoon, a temporary safe place before the new year and the new life.

None of that has anything to do with this week’s pints. Just musing. I hope that all is well with you, wherever you are.

• Pain (March 2004) — One of my stories, “Alien Jane,” is about a woman with congenital insensitivity to pain
• The variety of art (April 2004) — So many ways to get into story, and for it to get into us.
• Riffing (April 2004) — I am She Who Riffs. It’s still my biggest joy, and biggest trap, as a writer.

Enjoy your Friday.

Ever Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

• The point (March 2004) — And it’s still the point, for me.
• Mind the gap (March 2004) — The Interpersonal Gap, an excellent model of how misunderstanding occurs.
• What next? (March 2004) — No, really, no sequel to Solitaire.

Enjoy your day.

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

• Random Solitaire (March 2004) — I just keep coming back to the story.
• Public transit tears (March 2004) — This is one of the coolest compliments I’ve ever had as a writer. I’d be curious to hear what books have made you cry?

  Oh, and guess how that 4:15 thing turned out when I started screenwriting? Sorry, honey (blows kiss to Nicola through the internet).

• Escape (March 2004) — As if that’s a bad thing…

Enjoy your day.

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.

I know, I know, it’s Sunday. I got so fired up on Friday that I was compelled to rant rather than pint.

So here you go. Back on Friday as usual with the next round.

• Web (February 2004) — Short post about the web in Solitaire. I should have answered this one better — there’s a bit more about it here, but even that’s not really an answer. I’ll have to think more about this.
• Inspiration (February 2004) — Where does this stuff come from?
• Ambiguity (February 2004) — It’s the one-word-title week… this one’s about, well, ambiguity in Solitaire (grin).

Happy Friday-on-a-Sunday. Hah, that would mean that tomorrow was the weekend again, wouldn’t that be great?

Every Friday I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint Archives.

A long and winding road today. I hope you’re enjoying the Virtual Pint posts and the rapid passage of time… we started in 2002 and we’re now in the beginning of 2004.

And in the present day, it’s nearly Thanksgiving. Virtual time isn’t the only kind that flies.

• Stereotyping and writing questions (January 2004) — If you read my post about being a writing ally over the summer, then you may already have seen this older post as well. It’s this set of questions from a reader that prompted me to write my advice for aspiring pro writers.
• The naming of things (February 2004) — Betcha didn’t know how much there is to say about “Eskridge”….
• Bold cows (February 2004) — Nothing about cows at all, but a fair bit about poetry.

Enjoy your weekend.

Every week I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint Archives.

You’re getting Friday pints on a Saturday because yesterday I announced the launch of Humans At Work. And you’re only getting two pints because they are long. Ah, we live in a world where constant flexibility is required.

• That individual thing (December 2003) — Genre, the marketing of books, and (I now see) the first explorations of writing and relationship that found their way into the 2005 essay As We Mean To Go On.
• Seeing differently (December 2003) — How the survival strategies of the Other affect writing, and a link to one of my favorite essays about writing (and a Big Clue about where the title of A Leader’s Manifesto comes from).

It’s sunny (yay!) in Seattle, and I hope it’s nice where you are too. Enjoy your weekend.