Uhmmm — yeah. It’s been 4 weeks since I updated. Or even spent any time reading my FL. Sorry? The day job has been crazy. At this point I believe that come Friday it will be calm again. At least until April. Then I’ll probably have another insane month. I had a lovely time in […]
I got up early this morning so that I could clean the kitchen before I started my day. Less than 10 minutes after I got up, someone started pounding on my door. It was one of the other residents — the roof was (is) leaking into one of the third floor units. From about 7:15
For those of you who are interested, here is the pumpkin pie recipe that I use. It’s from the Moosewood Cookbook. I start with raw pumpkin.
The evening before Thanksgiving I went to talk with a novel writing class about being a published novelist, basically telling them my story as well as general information about the publishing industry, things that I know and take for granted (like that there are only a few big publishing houses left, even fewer distribution channels,
Today I had the perfect mixture of intense activity and complete down time. Yesterday I realized that I had miscounted the number of pages I’d written for chapter eight. I typed up everything that I had, only to find out that the chapter was about 3600 words. I thought about it yesterday afternoon and decided
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It’s Thursday! Time for Thursday tea! I will probably be there earlier tonight again. I’m hungry, and so might have dinner at the tea shop. Hope to see people there!
Friday night I started getting lots of ideas for the novel — started really living it. It feels so nice to be in that obsessive place again. Saturday I wrote a lot, especially for me. Sunday I did about 1500 words. Last night, I had a migraine — relatively mild, but still, pain. I managed
But by that, I mean one of those good days, when I wake up and all I can think about is the novel. I stretched, did my yoga, then curled up on my bed with my cereal and my tea and started to write. And write. And write some more. Last night my brain kicked
It’s Thursday tea time! I plan on getting there early to grab a table for four. Let me know if you think I need to get a bigger table. Hope to see ya’ll there! I will be working on chapter seven. I finished typing up chapter six on Tuesday. I didn’t write on Wednesday, but
I’m back from World Fantasy. I had such a good time. I saw a lot of wonderful people–made some new friends and reconnected with some old friends. I also drank a lot of scotch and didn’t get much sleep (at night — I napped both days I was there.) I got very inspired again for