Just wow ( Read more... )

Got home from work tonight in time to get the call from my history project manager. We reviewed the changes she wants made to the chapter. She'd like me to get this to her by Saturday afternoon so she can take it with her to a business conference she's going to next week. However, some of the changes she's looking for are going to take some ( Read more... )

I may or may not have mentioned, I'm in the Honors English Program at HCC. This is very similar to taking a 400-level course as a Grad Student. If you want credit, you have to do extra work. OK, not a huge amount of extra work, but it's still there.

For my Intro to Fiction class, along with doing a slightly more in-depth treatment of Theseus ( Read more... )

Wow, lots of stuff to cover.

Went to the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Writer's Workshop on Saturday. There were a number of interesting panels and I enjoyed meeting agentobscura. She had a great panel on how to write a query letter and especially how not to write one. She gave us a list of 25 do's and don't in writing a query ( Read more... )

Consider this paying ahead for the short story she's doing for me. We had to do a prose poem for my Creative Writing class tonight. It's a little longer than what the professor was anticipating, but he said I came the closest in the class to hitting the mark with this effort.

Again, I'll hide it behind a cut to spare the casual reader.

( Ozark Woods )

Based on the overwhelming demand for my poetry (read: drivel), I present to those brave enough to go behind the cut, the poem entitled, "Morning Delight".

(O.K., it was seawhyspers's idea, but what the heck, I haven't had my ration of abuse yet this month.) (Edit: I guess that should have read "from strangers". My apologies to wishweaver who tries to keep me in line ( Read more... )

Well, against my own worst expectations, I have my "sensuous" poem ready for tonight's class ( Read more... )