I made a new post on my food/fitness blog this evening about shopping for new clothes to fit my slightly-changing body. I have new, lovely jeans that actually fit and aren't all saggy, righting the disservice to my butt that the 16s sitting in my closet are plotting even as I type. And there's a picture of me wearing a green shirt that I really, ( Read more... )

I'm going to keep working on my book. There is so much work and reworking to be done to it, and I realize this and don't think it's automatically done just because it's December ( Read more... )

I crossed the 40,000 word threshold tonight. Just 6 more days until I can have my life back. -_-

I set up a twitter account for my nano project so I could get a few words going during the day while I'm at work. Spend a few minutes on soap opera transcription, write a line. Run spell check, write a couple of lines. Probably better for building some basic structure than it is for putting down dialog. But at this point, I'm 4.5k words behind and ( Read more... )

Zzzz.

Adventures I have had lately:

I wrote a couple of more entries for Fanci Fun TimeThere was a camping trip. The weather was gorgeous, the food was good, and I went for a long hike and reaffirmed my love for Ben Folds ( Read more... )

Those who are friended to my writing journal fauxpasta, I've posted what's now being called chapter 2 of my book (locked to friends, so if you want to read it, friend that journal). I've been tinkering with this chapter tonight instead of writing new story; I feel like I've come to a slight road block, but I'm hoping to move past it in the next couple of ( Read more... )

Nanowrimo story idea, the first one that's actually sounded feasible.

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I got the first draft on paper of a story I plan to post on Fictionaut sometime in the next few days. I'm partially editing as I type it. I think I'm too tired to get through the whole thing tonight. I will pick it up tomorrow, though; it will not remain unfinished, like every other project that has touched my hands in the last few years.

I wanna write. There, I said it! But only because J.net put it into my head that I should write and gave me a general subject. Too bad good germs of ideas come out only while we're talking, and only crap ideas hit the page once I've hung up the phone.

In case you're not on my writing journal list and want to read the first paragraphs of my new short story, you can find it here.

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