on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
My day was hijacked in the worst possible way this morning, with the news that yet another psycho had gone on a shooting rampage–about 20 minutes from where I live. I worried about friends and colleagues who are Sikh, who might have been there, since it was to have been a day of special celebration….
It’s been another busy week. I’m still not sticking with the number of #wordmongering sprints per week I had optimistically set for myself, but even if I continue at only 1,000 words on Blood to Fire per week for the remainder of this round, I’ll be halfway through my manuscript by September, and should be…
It’s been one of those weeks: Where you’re crazy-productive, and feel like you’re still at the bottom of the mountain of work you need to climb. And my mom left Saturday night for her latest tour of duty in Iraq. I’m already quite far from my family (mostly, they live in Virginia, 800 miles away)….
Because of all the plans we had around birthday celebrations this week, I didn’t really expect to be productive much. The nice thing about low expectations, though, is that when you do manage to accomplish stuff, you feel like you really accomplished something. I blame it on the ridiculous COOLness of Chris Isaac’s concert Wednesday…
I know I said I was typically only going to post Sunday updates for my ROW80 challenge, but tonight turned out to be a special night. I found out my husband had arranged for front-and-center Chris Isaak tickets on that artist’s latest swing through Milwaukee. It was an amazing concert. Regardless of whether you’re an…
Somehow the weeks are slipping by faster and faster. A week ago, I decided to see whether setting goals after failing Camp NaNo this summer would help light a fire under my writing activity. So far, I have to say it doesn’t feel like it’s going well. Sure: I wrote more than 5K words this…
This is my big-push month on publicity for Dust to Blood, so I’ve joined the Gravetells Indie-pendence week blog hop event, which means you get a chance at a free copy of my book. (Check out the Rafflecopter giveaway at the bottom of this post for ways to earn entries to the drawing.) 😀 I’d…