Spring Haz Sprung
Hello readers!
I'm sorry for the long hiatus. Since I last wrote, the saying my mother always used to offer has come true:
Spring haz sprung, the grass iz riz; tell me where the flowers iz.
(She did not, of course, say it with the z's in place, but that's how I always heard it. My mother's grammar was always correct, except when she was quoting something silly.)
February and March were very busy months for me preparing for Bug to arrive, and then having Bug here with us! She's healthy and happy and a month old.
(Pictured here are Bug and the editorial staff outside with me. This is from week two -- all the more recent photos are still on the camera or are on a different computer.)
At any rate, the weather is lovely here in Shoreline Connecticut, the family is happy, and we've had a lot of company and family time. Next week, Bug and I are on our own again while Twostripe is at work, and after all the excitement, some quiet time will be good for us, too.
Along with learning about how to be a mother, I've done some creative work as well. I've mentioned before that Max Gladstone (lyster) and I are working on the novel Blood and Tumult for Baeg Tobar together, and we've finally managed to make some progress. (This means that I've finally managed to sit down and write chapters back to Max -- he was waiting on me to contribute for quite some time.) We're writing chapters back and forth to each other; it's back to my turn again, so I need to send him about 3000 words before the weekend is over. Collaboration is exciting, though, and it's fun to see how characters change or appear differently when they're built in tandem with someone else. (Also, it's brilliant motivation, now that we're in progress, to know that someone else is waiting -- perhaps even with baited breath! -- to see what happens next. *g*)
As far as blogging, I'm hoping to be back to my regular blogging schedule of at least several times a week, with guest blogs or excerpts lined up on Fridays. YA novelist and fellow Mythopoeic Society member Alma Alexander has agreed to talk about differentiating fairy tales and myths sometime in the near future; she and I corresponded recently on what being "mythopoeic" is all about, and I thought her notes were so interesting that I wanted her to share them here. (I haven't yet read her novels, though I have no idea how I missed them -- they look wonderfully mythopoeic and right up my alley!)
And finally, thanks to everyone who, while I was on hiatus, contacted me outside of livejournal. It was lovely to hear from you! And now, it's good to be back. :)
I'm sorry for the long hiatus. Since I last wrote, the saying my mother always used to offer has come true:
Spring haz sprung, the grass iz riz; tell me where the flowers iz.
(She did not, of course, say it with the z's in place, but that's how I always heard it. My mother's grammar was always correct, except when she was quoting something silly.)
February and March were very busy months for me preparing for Bug to arrive, and then having Bug here with us! She's healthy and happy and a month old.
(Pictured here are Bug and the editorial staff outside with me. This is from week two -- all the more recent photos are still on the camera or are on a different computer.)
At any rate, the weather is lovely here in Shoreline Connecticut, the family is happy, and we've had a lot of company and family time. Next week, Bug and I are on our own again while Twostripe is at work, and after all the excitement, some quiet time will be good for us, too.
Along with learning about how to be a mother, I've done some creative work as well. I've mentioned before that Max Gladstone (lyster) and I are working on the novel Blood and Tumult for Baeg Tobar together, and we've finally managed to make some progress. (This means that I've finally managed to sit down and write chapters back to Max -- he was waiting on me to contribute for quite some time.) We're writing chapters back and forth to each other; it's back to my turn again, so I need to send him about 3000 words before the weekend is over. Collaboration is exciting, though, and it's fun to see how characters change or appear differently when they're built in tandem with someone else. (Also, it's brilliant motivation, now that we're in progress, to know that someone else is waiting -- perhaps even with baited breath! -- to see what happens next. *g*)
As far as blogging, I'm hoping to be back to my regular blogging schedule of at least several times a week, with guest blogs or excerpts lined up on Fridays. YA novelist and fellow Mythopoeic Society member Alma Alexander has agreed to talk about differentiating fairy tales and myths sometime in the near future; she and I corresponded recently on what being "mythopoeic" is all about, and I thought her notes were so interesting that I wanted her to share them here. (I haven't yet read her novels, though I have no idea how I missed them -- they look wonderfully mythopoeic and right up my alley!)
And finally, thanks to everyone who, while I was on hiatus, contacted me outside of livejournal. It was lovely to hear from you! And now, it's good to be back. :)