my book manuscript has just had its first (beta) reader. aunt buba has finished it and when i go visit next month we're going to go over all of her notes she has for me. HOW EXCITING ( Read more... )

somewhere around one year ago this time, i was worried as crap about the job i thought i had that wasn't panning out, but i was in the middle of writing a book ( Read more... )

so the tree is decorated. CHECK ( Read more... )

ohai!!! bless me journal world for i have sinned. it has been far too long since my last entry ( Read more... )

to quote a movie we saw recently, though i admit while we liked the movie i can't recall what it was, "i am a writer. that's what i do." here are my confessions ( Read more... )

i was preparing for my daily yoga class before i went up to the yoga room, taking off my shoes and jacket (although MY GOD i didn't even need my winter coat today! it's like... FIFTY! that's practically BALMY and stuff!!) and overheard the owner talking with the instructor ( Read more... )

where was the best place you've gone on vacation and where did you stay? i'm looking for places that surprised you how awesome it was, how delighted you were when you got there and saw it or saw where you were staying, how unexpectedly amazing your time spent there was, and how you've always thought about it as one of the best little surprises in ( Read more... )

still working on my first draft of my manuscript. i suppose i am 2/3 the way done? i could be done now, if i wanted to have a lame open-ended ending and let readers wonder, "wow, i hope it all turned out okay for her," but no, i have too many more places i wanted it to go, and it's not enough ( Read more... )

i realized after talking to a friend the other night about my writing, and my yoga, and my break after my previous job that i have not *had* a break this long or even longer than a week's vacation since i was 15 yup, since i started working the spring after turned 16, i have been a working girl. (not that king of working girl. lol ( Read more... )

i have had a story in my head for several years. i have several stories, actually, that i combined in a notebook of "story ideas for which i would write if i ever found the time to write anything," and now that i have time, i picked one of them out that i haven't ever gotten out of my brain. mostly, because i wanted to see how it ends. it's like ( Read more... )