on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
It’s official: NaNoWriMo is over, and I failed. So I’m reminding myself of Ghandi and Rumi and those other enlightened souls who point out that we really are only as good as we allow ourselves to be. The balance I’m looking for is only partially offered by continued success in school, and slightly less self-imposed…
I’ve come out the other side of my second round of mid-term assignments, and the end of my third NaNoWriMo is five days away. Of the two, the first has significantly more profound long-term implications, but I’ve been struggling throughout my holiday week not to fall prey to the droopies because I don’t see much…
A few weeks back, before her Cabin Goddess site got gobbled by some nasty virus, Kriss set me the task of a Flash Fiction piece of no more than 500 words using the prompt “darkness”. She even shared it on her blog; given the crazy that the malware introduced in her life, though, I figured…
I’m glad class work this week wasn’t as time-consuming as normal, because between stubbornly stuffy sinuses and betrayal by mattress, my brain has been working at half-power, distracted by poor sleep and pressure enough I thought Tuesday my head my actually implode. I’ve allowed myself the small reprieve of adding a minimum of 100 words…
This week has felt mostly like too much work and too little time, built on way too little sleep. So now I’m fighting a cold again. My body rebels when I push too hard, so I’m glad I’ve had a chance to rest a little this weekend. And I’m done with all the remaining book…
I hope there’s truth to this saying for me once again this month, as my schedule got blown up this weekend. As you will have noticed, I didn’t even post here yesterday, per my normal schedule/plan. My blog tour for Dementional kicked off this morning with a Guest Post on Gwen Perkins’ site. I’m writing…
I’m trying for my third NaNo in a row this year, despite being in the middle of my second MBA class. I missed all my previous goals to finish book 2 of Red Slaves, so for some reason I have this thought that I’ll finish both that and book 3 in November. insanity So. For…
I got my final grade for my first class this week, and was happy to find myself starting off with an A. I was very pleased that my major research paper came back with the following comments: “The ideas you present in this paper are scholarly and astute. You make new and interesting connections between…
Happy Halloween week… It’s a surprise short story release day. 🙂 I’ve been working on this one all summer long. For all that it’s fewer than 5,000 words, it’s gone through more revisions than my novels–and more dramatic changes, too. I previewed it a few weeks back, but you may or may not see that…
I’m not sure how I either missed or forgot this, but two months back Kathleen Doyle tagged me for a sunshine award. Likely I just got mind-wiped by my first semester of grad school, but now’s the time to catch up on all my obligations. 🙂 I’m supposed link back, answer some questions about myself,…