As part of my carrot/stick to writing, I’m going to start posting stats here.
Word count for today: 500 words
Which I’m actually really happy with doing even though it’s the weekend and I should be doing more like 2000. But I *am* happy that I got something, anything, done, particularly considering that I didn’t get any sleep last night, I feel like shit and the chest cold from hell has decided that my chest is a good place to homestead.…
Started working on the new novel today. Didn’t write much, not more than a few hundred words, as well as heavily revising the few hundred words I already had. …
I don’t write novels.
I write chapters. Or scenes. A sentence or even a word at a time.
Yeah, I have to pull back and look at big picture now and again. But I don’t write that way.
I can do this when I break it down.…
I received a letter offering me a position in the new merged company on Saturday, not a severance package.
Being laid off wouldn’t have been terrible, but still being employed isn’t awful either.
There are at least 14 documents I have to read through and sign – but I have a week in which to do it.…
Sorry – haven’t been around much – came down with the cold from hell that morphed into a sinus infection. I’ve completely lost my voice again. Plus I’ve been working really hard at the day job. I hope to be back soon.…
Well – as some of you may have seen today – Oracle bought PeopleSoft. I’ve worked for PeopleSoft for the past 7 years, doing technical writing.
Am I out of a job immediately? No.
But sometime over the next year? Quite possibly.…
Book thingy – from lots of people on my FL:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.…
Kate Major, one of my Clarion classmates (Clarion West, 1997) died the evening of December 1st, after a long struggle with cancer (she’d been diagnosed in the spring.) It was not unexpected and she knew what was happening. Her daughter was with her at the end, and her mother and son and sister had been at her side earlier in the day.…
Thanks for all the well wishes and kind thoughts. I appreciate it. …