Snow, Fear and Bicycles

There was snow yesterday evening. A few centimetres only, heavy and wet, but it was pretty while it lasted.

I had been riding my bicycle into town with a vague idea of going to the library, but as soon as I had left the house, a freezing rain started to fall (it turned to sleet later, and finally to wet snow), and the library is not well heated. Instead I stopped at the tea house, had some tea and read magazines. Mostly women's magazines, which I generally enjoy for two reasons: 1. the cooking, and 2. the immeasurable relief that my life is so very simple and pleasant compared to the lives of the magazines' target audience.

I found a nice, simple recipe for tomatoes roasted in the oven, which I'll try as soon as tomatoes are in season again. I found a whole load of things I did not need at all, and an article which irked me.

( Fear and fearlessness )

( Bicycles )

And some links:

Here's one on planetbuilding. The planets are already build, topography, climate, ecology and all. Great.

Did I link this one before? The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

How to deal with critiquing (the literary/beta reading kind).

Also on writing: On novels in progress. The link goes to the discussion of the article on Makinglight, but the original article is linked and the discussion is interesting.