Blue skies.  End of school.  Baking heat.  Swimming pools.  Air you can cut with a knife.  Sun tea ( Read more... )

I'm quitting my day job.

I've wanted to write that sentence for over a year now.  That is my news, the major event I've wanted to share with everyone and couldn't tell anyone.  But today, it's official.  I handed in my resignation letter this morning and took the form up to the dean's office.  I'm quitting.  I quit.  I quit.  I QUIT!I'm going to ( Read more... )

How, in the name of all that is holy, can November be over?!  Seriously, it was Halloween, like yesterday, and today I look at the calendar and suddenly I'm behind on my Christmas shopping, have a week and a half to prepare for my vacation and Christmas traveling, and to send out the Christmas cards which I bought last year and are now buried ( Read more... )

It is 100 degrees outside today.  However I expect one of those Saint Benard rescue dogs along at any moment now in my office.  Only I hope he has hot coffee instead of whiskey in his little barrel.  Really wishing I had some gloves right now...

(Long Overdue) Writing Report
I don't have a word count.  I cut huge swaths of text and then add better ( Read more... )

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

-- Ambrose Redmoon  (stolen from found at Ten Million Words, a lovely blog I stumbled across on Twitter.)

This is why I keep writing, keep being a mother, a wife, keep being and doing.  Courage is probably the trait I admire most in ( Read more... )

Writing Report:
Edited two chapters last night.  I haven't numbered them because they keep getting rearranged, but it's the early middle section. I started with approximately 3300 words and ended up with something like 3600 much, much better words.  I also went to the library last night. And slept. I think sleeping was in there somewhere.

Dear dog, ( Read more... )

Writing Report:
1000 new words added (Yay!) 
250 words deleted 
first third of the book: DONE
Total word count: 20,058

I need to reread this section for continuity after all that cutting and pasting and editing, but I'll do that once this draft is finished.  I'm too deep in it right now to see errors.  Also, I'm tired of this part of the book.  Time to ( Read more... )

Writing Report:
Added 640 words last night and edited a chapter whose word count didn't significantly change.  I should finish rewriting the first third of the book this evening unless it gets all persnickety on me.

June To-Do List:  
1)  Fix leak in upstairs bathroom.  DONE
James the Plumber came by this morning.  My debit card is cringing and I ( Read more... )

The Kiddos are gone.  Awesome Husband is gone.  The house is so very quiet.  And dangit thunderstorms kept me off the computer all yesterday evening.  So no writing accomplished on Sunday.  Tonight, that will change.  It is clear and sunny and, by golly, words will be written ( Read more... )

No words were written at lunch today as planned because Awesome Husband took me out to eat instead.  I was kidnapped, ya'll.  Totally against my will.  Dragged kicking and screaming to this great little pub to eat the best homemade potato chips (crisps to my UK friends) in the whole world.  It was TORTURE (having to go back to work afterwards ( Read more... )