Recovery
As I mentioned, yesterday I finished my proposal chapters. Late last night, I finished polishing them up to send to my agent. Part of that polishing revolved around consistency. I had changed some name spellings and some capitalizations, and I…
ritual words
Last night I was going to bed and then suddenly had a burst of energy and creativity, and stayed up til 3 a.m. to finish the chapter on the WIP I was working on. It was a little bit difficult…
Admissions and a snippet
I admit that it’s been a hard day. I had a bit of a meltdown actually. The culprit is Valentine’s day. But not in the way that you might thing. My husband and I don’t usually do much for V…
a workday
I managed to exercise today, and I finished the neverending chapter of the WIP. Finally. I’m pretty pleased with it. I hope I still am when I really dig back into it. I now have one more chapter to write…
bububbbbbb
I don’t know what happened to me this morning. I passed out after I sent the kids to school and slept for three hours. Three. Hours. WTF? I then managed to get some laundry done and cleaned the fish tank…
On the Roller Coaster Again plus a snippet
Somebody is coming to look at the house tomorrow. This is where I frantically clean (actually the house was mostly ready, but I did work on the kids’ rooms and some straightening. I will do some kitchen maintenance in the…
A snippet
From what I’m working on now. I don’t know if I will like it down the road, but I like it now. Teeth dug into his jaw and cheekbones. Hot, fetid breath filled his mouth and nostrils. Above his left…
A writing post
I haven’t talked about writing much lately. I think it’s been because I’ve been stewing about a scene. It’s still stewing, but I had some thoughts today. I was reading from Don Maass’ 20th Century Fiction. There’s some really good…
Enter the frazzling
Do you know how hard it is to get everything done for school, travel, cleaning, and children, while at the same time needing to finish reading a book? Sharon Shinn kills me! Oh but I love her books. Finally started…
comment on cooking
When I was younger, like early teens, I used to make up ‘recipes’ for cakes and things and bake them in the oven and my family even sometimes ate them. Those things that were edible. I had no idea what…