My last post from almost two months ago mentioned I was going to try to write 750 words today.  Let's just cut straight to the chase and say that has not happened.   I have been writing* but not setting--or achieving--any daily goals for myself.  I have done lots of research into various story-related things; I have polished up my first four ( Read more... )

I have been thinking lately of how my handle here doesn't really reflect my life at the moment. I still have stories in me, I am sure. I just don't spend a lot of time with that part of myself these days.

Recently, after my health issues climaxed, leaving me pretty rundown,  J left for a week of training down by my mil's house. He took our three ( Read more... )

(This was a longer, and arguably better written post in the first effort that the Internet ate, so here is a the whittled down version ( Read more... )

( Ye Gods, why am I even posting my writer-angsty drivel? )

In my inbox, I have 500+ comments I've been meaning to reply to. I believe it is now time to face some facts ( Read more... )

...at least I hope I am.

I am very much dreading the "etat des lieux" tomorrow, the handing over of the keys, the verification of the inventory and the state in which we have left the apartment.

I always leave a place spotless. Spotless. I am not a tidy person, but when I leave a home, you could eat off the floors, the walls, out of the dishwasher ( Read more... )

First things first: This is by no means a how-to or "lesson." This is me rambling about story structure and process because I keep promising to show what I've been up to with my writing. If this navel-gazing brain picking can be of use or interest to anyone else so much the better.

Writers are always saying (paraphrased), "You never learn how to ( Read more... )

 A combination of busyness and general blah has kept me from posting of late.  The busyness I can explain; the blah, I cannot. I have many things to share and the lot of you have posted a surpassing number for me to comment on. (Even though I haven't been posting, I have been faithfully keeping up with my flist.) But I just don't feel like reaching ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I don't post it's because I don't think I have anything worth saying, but other times, I actually have too much on my mind. Instead of sharing, I retreat and try to work through it myself, only poking my head out of my shell again once the edge to unload has worn off ( Read more... )

Remember the other day when I wrote that whiny, doubting Thomas, quasi permission-seeking entry? And in that entry, I seemed to think that any project X I took up to while away the time needed to do and process research on the The Bitter River would assuredly be easier to write? Remember how I insinuated stated flat out that it would be brainless?

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