Nin doesn’t live here anymore. In truth, I have not wanted to be “Nin Harris” for a very long time. The first time I tried to change my pen name was sometime in 2011, and again, in 2020 when that horrible implosion of my SFF career occurred. The name “Nin” and me have always been … Continue reading From The Escritoire 19/08/2022
Recovery mode — that’s what I’m in. I haven’t been able to dig into the writing much since I got home because I’m still valiantly trying to finish grading. I *did* manage to see an MA supervisee’s thesis through to submission, and now I’m checking corrections on a PhD thesis I’m internal examiner for. There’s … Continue reading From The Escritoire 12/08/2022
The subtitle of this post is: Money is a Pain In The Ass. There have been several unavoidable expenses this month which has made numbers crunching a real headache. On top of stuff I had to get for my health, I finally did a whole lot of repairs I’d been postponing for months to the … Continue reading From The Escritoire 01/07/2022
I’ve been having even more fatigue than usual this week. I think the release of stress after submitting the Anthropocene article, finishing Fairytale Salon III plus submitting a grant application all within the same week was too much for me, on top of my health issues. Today, I checked my blood pressure and it was … Continue reading From The Escritoire 23/06/2022
Hello! There’s been a moderate amount of progress since my last post, health issues and trigger thumb notwithstanding! I’m still very slowly plugging away on Watermyth, even though every now and then I negative self-talk myself with “you’re doing all this work but you’ll be lucky if five people buy/read it”. Nevertheless, life is short … Continue reading From The Escritoire 20/06/2022