I just love it when Kaden goes down for a voluntary nap. There's SO much housework to be done at the moment. Ugh. I should clean the kitchen, go through the paperwork in the office, fold laundry, clean the bathrooms and straighten up the living room. And all I want to do is write. Buh.

Well, it hasn't exactly been a banner day. My Lenten sacrifice is to attend daily Mass (oy, I forsee big problems with this) so I set the alarm for 6:30 this morning ( Read more... )

Yay! I've downloaded Semagic and gotten rid of LochJournal. Seriously, I don't know what the use is of a client that doesn't save the post you're working on when the window is minimized. It's not like I shut down or anything, but whenever I switched to the web or my inbox, I lost the entire post. Stupid ( Read more... )

I did nothing today. Not even make the bed. I did shower, and epilady 1/2 a leg. I cooked a delightfull Indian lunch (dal makhani, paneer in curry sauce, samosas and sauteed beet greens) as well as a surprisingly good dinner (over-stuffed vegetarian peppers.) I watched Tristan and Isolde on HBO and wasn't all that impressed. I read a few books to ( Read more... )

Aiy, it's been a trying day ( Read more... )

Thrush ( Read more... )

For those who love poetry, writing, and humorous snarks about the tortuous publishing process, I give you an excerpt from this great article about the site www.rejectionletter.com (at which authors post the rejection letters they've received and moan about how unfair they are):

This one is just painful. In it we see an aspiring “poetry parodist ( Read more... )

So I'm taking out the entire mercenary plotline of my book. It's pretty huge. It means there's nothing keeping Aramen from heading right to Ancastle (except the size and slowness of his army, which still keeps him to about 2 miles an hour). It means there's nothing to make him separate the women and send them on ahead, so the Hocks won't attack and ( Read more... )

I'm trying to RIAW (rewrite-in-a-week) because I need SOMETHING to motivate me into finishing this darn book. And still, I've written about 1/2 a page and keep coming back to LJ, or getting up to get a snack, or do laundry, or whatever ( Read more... )

Steve Breaston is my new hero. Holy freaking cow, batman. I mean, seriously. The only thing he didn't do during the game today was rise from the dead ( Read more... )