Pages for my July deadline have been sent off, but that doesn’t mean the pressure’s off. Lots to do, not much work time this month, especially if I want to catch up and get ahead in my schedule for edits.
Since I’m not much fun today, here’s a photo of Shiloh:
Read the rest of Deadline Met
Maggie Stiefvater just kicked my butt and, if you’re a creative type, perhaps you should go let her kick yours, too.
Now, it’s time for me to take a shower, run my errands, and go hope I don’t blow up the mail room at the office. Everything was relatively unscathed after yesterday, but […]
Read the rest of *cringe*
Deadline work continues. I really dislike rewriting scenes. Some edits are quick and easy, and others are rather like slogging through knee-deep mud with two feet of water on top of that. I’m currently working through a section of the latter, which means I suspect I’ll be turning in ten chapters instead […]
Read the rest of Third Day is Love
I was just making a list of the things I need to do in the next few months (and the things I’m doing whether I need to or not, like driving to central New York) and I feel a distinct knot of panic settling somewhere in the vicinity of my stomach. The next month […]
Read the rest of Remember the Panic Threshold?
After a very nice, relaxed visit, my parents are safely home in Ohio.
I used this afternoon to catch up with several things that have been shoved to the periphery of my attention lately, and did a fair job of catching them up - not entirely there yet, but it’s getting closer.
I […]
Read the rest of Laying Battle Plans
. . . for the lack of posting lately. One might assume that I’ve been busy editing away at my manuscript, but one would only be partially correct. My parents are in town visiting, and between getting ready for that and a few other things, the weekend was rather busy with cleaning and […]
Read the rest of Apologies. . .
The inestimable Jim Hines, author of the Goblin books I really need to read, has provided the speculative fiction world with a gem. For anyone who’s not familiar with the song to which this obviously should be sung, just go to YouTube, look up Pirates of Penzance and listen to The Major-General’s Song. […]
Read the rest of And Now, For Some Culture. . . .
I’m writing today. Or, at least, I will be writing. Soon. Really, I promise.
And since I know you all need entertainment while I work, and since I don’t have any pictures of Shiloh handy, I give you (trumpet fanfare here) AN EXCERPT! Okay, so it’s more of a tiny sample, but […]
Read the rest of Mmmm Excerpt
Awake and Dressed: Check
Sitting in Coffee Shop: Check
Ate Fabulous Blueberry Mini-Bundt Cake: Check
Have Bottomless Cup of Coffee: Check
YouTube Diversion Finished: Check
Have Manuscript To Work On: Check
Looks like there’s no further excuse to put off the work. Here’s to a productive day.
Read the rest of Check List
Yesterday I made notes on another quarter of the manuscript, and today I started in on translating those notes back to the computer. I worked through a whopping six pages of manuscript today, which doesn’t seem like much on the surface. On the other hand, these pages were the former opening of the […]
Read the rest of More Progress