https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/ My Circus, My Monkeys...Little Bit My Roman Empire - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:30:28 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios emburnham personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/18525349/4333999 https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/737.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:30:28 GMT https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/737.html What's better than an all-day headache? An all-day headache before you're off on a family trip! Hopefully, the aspirin will have done its job before I leave tomorrow, but right now I feel absolutely stifled from the head down. I don't even know what caused it! Was it not falling asleep until three? Getting in and out of a cold car into a furnace blasting heat? Not enough light vs. too much light in the living room? Maybe I just slept on my head funny, which is totally a thing that people can do. Bleh, essentially,<br /><br />Either way, I'm continuing to write, and figure out how to close up the end of the new book. It's my first urban fantasy, and so I want to have fun with it without sacrificing, you know, reading comprehension. But then I always worry that I'm paying too much attention to the plot and not the worldstate, careening between detective work and ghosts, and did the secondary villain have to be a lion shifter? (The answer to that last one is yes, he did. It's funner that way. Also, 'funner' is totally a word.)<br /><br />At least I've got the covers worked out for the series. There's going to be at least three books, each self-contained because I've fallen out of love with stories in triptych. (That will probably change once I've stopped reading them for awhile. There are some tropes and formats I can read forever, and then there are seasonal ones that I wax and wane on all year.) Anyway, an urban fantasy based on the idea "who insures cursed objects?" felt like it had just enough humor and action and drama within it to make three books out of. And I'm pretty excited to introduce my trio of main characters to the world. <br /><br />Still gotta finish first!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=emburnham&ditemid=737" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/737.html public 0 https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/274.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:18:41 GMT https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/274.html So! Here's a quick lowdown on the state of me: I used to have a website, but I'm in the process of taking it down. Any subsequent posts, pictures, or informative blurbs will be coming from this site (O' Dreamwidth, Thou Old Familiar Home) and I hope to spend a lot of time here (as soon as I figure out some of the logistics.)<br /><br />Thanks for your interest!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=emburnham&ditemid=274" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://emburnham.dreamwidth.org/274.html why dreamwidth? accomplished public 0