Seems having a few unplanned things, even good things, can totally throw me off, and I end up not getting much done. While my son and husband both benefit greatly from a routine that rarely changes, I used to thrive on fluidity. Not so much any more. Seems I'm becoming more hidebound, and that kind of bothers me. Not so much because I have ( Read more... )

Awhile back, I finally got back into submitting my short stories after not doing so for awhile because I was so frustrated with it in general. Then the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I really didn't do much of it because I was focused on other things. I did do some subs, managed a few small sales (like "God of Light" to Something ( Read more... )

But it's been a bit busy over here. Major cleaning going on. And yesterday, I thought I was going to help youngest unenroll from her school so she could enroll at another. That didn't happen, but I still stayed up until we found out it wasn't happening, then crashed until noon or so. Not enough sleep, so tried to go to bed early last night, but ( Read more... )

... I'm sorry I'm late. I should have been here."
~ Blood CharmswSo, yea, kinda disappeared last week. I got hyper-focused on the OneNote submissions tracker I was setting up and getting things transferred over to it. I was originally going to do a little every day and make sure I worked on other things as well, but in the end I'm glad I just got ( Read more... )

and she couldn't face one autistic kid in a bad mood.
~ Blood CharmsI had hoped to have good news to announce today, but it didn't pan out. I had a story accepted, but it was a reprint and the editor wanted to do some edits. I agreed as long as I had the chance to look at them beforehand and we could discuss anything I wasn't happy with, and he ( Read more... )

I don't know why it takes a few days of low counts after being sick or whatever for me to get back with it, but it almost always takes me 3 or 4 days to get back with it after not writing for any reason. Course, it probably helped getting a lot of sleep today. (Yea, I'm just getting up, but I was up all night. Leave me alone. ;P ( Read more... )

...and write!

Submitted A.C. to a new agent at a fairly well known agency and she requested the full. Distraction is on high, but I'm already behind on all my writing challenges, so I need to write.

Today's to do....

» Quest building draft
» A.C. glossary
» 1800 + 350 in world building
» submit a short; submit A.C.
» laundry
» dishesYea, this ( Read more... )

... but neither is it wise for me to not know the power of the one person I may have to rely on to save my life."
~ Kale, Blood Charms

Last week was okay. A.C. blew my count out of the water again (went over it several times, actually, once going through the comments of my final reader and several times fixing some "naming" issues I discovered ( Read more... )

Assassin's Choice is off to its first market. This is my first novel submission, and I have that same giddy feeling I had when I first subbed a short story somewhere. (Sadly, that first submission was ignored as the market kinda...not so much disappeared as became problematic THEN disappeared. Hopefully A.C. will have better luck. lol ( Read more... )

So, politely declined editor ( Read more... )