It is time to move on.

I was just thinking yesterday that my primary incentive in writing better for a while now has been a fear of exposing myself to ridicule.

This can't be healthy.
( my little self-analysis )

I joked after finishing Letters to My Nemesis that I was going to have a deuce of a time with my next projects, because that one had felt so...competent.
Like I'd finally got a hold on what I was trying to do.

This only lasts so long before I reach to do something better and getting there is another fingernails-and-teeth fight with inertia.


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I am in a crisis.

So I'm concocting this Secret Society of Glamorous Librarians thing, right?
Well.
Today my mom asked me if it was going to be "a steampunk".

...aaaaaaaaaah.
It may just be.

But--but--but I had a collage picked out already!

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This morning I noted the llama was looking into my window, past an onion blossom.

Sometimes I do notice how weird my daily life can be--it has a certain poetic absurdity. There is nothing like being a homestead-bound agritourism employed novelist, nothing in the world....

BookShoubu!2

I cannot trust to pictures to illustrate my victories fully. I got ( Read more... )

I have a sinking feeling I'm on the verge of a growth-spurt. A writing growth spurt.

These are painful--I primarily sense one on the horizon because my writing appears simplistic and unintelligent to me, suddenly. Like a 12 year old's. A twelve year old who knows an awful lot about what not to do, and can critique even published works with a canny ( Read more... )

After a month of being stopped on World Domination 101 revision, a little judicial reading seems to have stewed up the right conditions for Idea to spring forth.

It's funny how exposure isn't enough--there has to be that letting-it-sit period. At least for me. This time it felt especially slow since I wanted to have a monthly pace, of tackling ( Read more... )

So I really did want to do this meme which is  you comment on a friend's blog, and they pick 7 of your interests to hear you out on. If you've already done this, then I'll pick a few for you to comment here on.
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I could probably live a long, healthy, content life without ever hearing the word

FLOUNCE

used in a serious* way again.
Honestly, OtherWriterPeople. Flounce. Think about it--pronounce it aloud and cherish the vowels: Flounce!

* Brian Jacques use of it conveyed a snooty volewife's movements rather aptly. It sets my teeth on edge now, but it was not a ( Read more... )

I read Outlander yesterday.

It was a singularly unproductive day. (*_*)

I liked the story and characters very much. The way everything in Claire and Jamie's relationship happened in bed, though...I'll admit  it was too much. I was getting sick of it, despite the fact she did well writing them to be different moments. I didn't realize it was probably ( Read more... )

I bought stuff to pack today. We shall see how my luggage feels about it some other day. For now, I'm a bit more secure. A bit ( Read more... )