Dear Charis ( Read more... )

Here are some thoughts that I’ve been turning over lately ( Read more... )

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So, I did NOT finish the short story I was working on this weekend. So I am grounding myself from the internet. Hopefully it will only be for a day or two (it's a very short short story, and it's halfway done. I think), and probably no one will have time to miss me, or even notice that I'm gone...but if you see me online without reports on the ( Read more... )

Today was very nice--I went to see Julie & Julia (and thought it was darling and so enjoyable) with Mom and sister and Mom's sister and Angel and Angel's mom, then did a little exploring with Angel (farmer's market = disappointing) then we went to my house to make pretzels. Which were also disappointing. Pretzel dough has, what, four ingredients ( Read more... )

I used to be so good at actually talking about things in my LiveJournal...lately it seems as though the majority of my posts are little more than sticky notes in the ether ( Read more... )

Okay, debating how to proceed on Changeling--I've been reading the beginning of the MS so far to the writing group, and there are some fairly large revisions to the first few chapters, I think, based on last night's discussion. So do I press on with writing new stuff, trying to finish the story? Or go back and re-write, since it might very well ( Read more... )

Just snipped four pages from Changeling--the totally pointless Just Here Because I Need Word-Count tarot scene is gone. I was hung up on how neatly some of the imagery matched, but really it doesn't suit the tone of the story at all. I started trying to re-write it...but then I went 'no way, this is crap. SNIP'. I think that something more does ( Read more... )

Oh hey, I meant to do a real post!

Um, right, doing that now.

All last week sleep was a problem. I was doing that delightful 'lie in bed exhausted and wait for sleep to come' thing, and by Thursday I was just fall-down-and-die tired. I finally started getting some sleep, but even getting seven-eight hours I had left-over exhaustion making me ( Read more... )