These past few weeks have been busy. Last weekend we had a kiddie party to attend for X. The family actually hired a petting zoo to come in. Sheep, goats, a pig, and a pony wandered in the yard all wearing party hats while indoors they had a small animal show. The house was about 3 times the size of our house and the yard about 4 times as large. ( Read more... )

With a full-time job and a 5-year old in preschool/daycare, I neither have the time nor the funds to go on expensive, week-long writing retreats. At the same time, there’s nothing like having several days to dedicate to writing. Luckily, fellow organizer of the South Jersey Writers group, Amy, is kind enough to organize semi-annual weekend writing ( Read more... )

Back at the daily grind today after almost 2 weeks off. I was pretty anxious last night and did not sleep well at all but things are going smoothly and I'm putting out the fires pretty quickly, as well as writing up a training plan for a session I have to conduct next week ( Read more... )

I'm out of work today since the Professor is running a fever. I thought it best to keep him home ( Read more... )

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes ~ Desiderius Erasmus

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This is the post i should have made last week.

Last Tuesday, six authors assembled at the Cherry Hill library in south jersey to talk about publishing. Included in the panel were Jon Gibbs as facilitator ( jongibbs) and with Danielle Ackley- ( Read more... )

With the intention /anticipation of finishing this draft of Small Town Ghosts by the end of the month, I have signed up for Nanowrimo this year AGAIN - I have yet to win. You can find me under "cen0taph" (that's with a zero in the middle).

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

So today was pretty NON-productive overall. I had meant to start taking my books downstairs back to the den since the floor was finished 2 weeks ago but alas, they are still in the bedroom. Speaking of which, I am in a quandary. Nothing serious but I cant decide if I want to ( Read more... )

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Had a great weekend at a pool party on Saturday then some time at the park as a reward after cleaning on Sunday.

Writing

Managed to get some writing done although not as productive as I usually can be, mostly because I was spending more time as I edited making sure I used specific NOUNS and strong VERBS as opposed to vague adverbs. I was really ( Read more... )