What I Have To Do Today:

• Catch up on my writing of Wayfarer, which is now nearly two weeks behind schedule
  
• Grocery shopping (including buying food for 70 people for Saturday's church picnic)
  
• Laundry (3 loads -- IN PROGRESS)
  
• Strip and remake beds
  
• Take toddler outside to play
  
• Make spaghetti sauce for dinner
  
• Take kids to music lessons
  
• Pick and ( Read more... )

I am feeling rather sad and sorry for myself today. A combination of gloomy weather, a cold that won't leave, an exceptionally busy week, a toddler who has suddenly decided to stop napping, and several other biological and circumstantial factors have converged upon me in a heap of Disproportionate Gloom. And much as I love Eeyore (yes, he really is ( Read more... )

This afternoon as I was preparing to settle in for a writing session, I dropped my laptop and broke the hinge on one side ( Read more... )

TRAPPED AT HOME WITH SNOWBOUND CHILDREN FOR SECOND DAY IN A ROW STOP
SEND HELP STOP

First, the better ( Read more... )

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My mother just brought me the first slice of her pre-Christmas batch of Saffron Cake, and a lovely cup of tea to go with.

I was going to be all MY SAFFRON CAKE, LET ME SHOW YOU IT, only I can't, because my digital camera seems to be broken.

*cries*

*eats cake anyway*

ETA: The camera problem is Canon's fault. So now I have to ship it back to ( Read more... )

For some reason, I feel completely brain-dead today. Tired, gloomy, unable to concentrate. I've done a few things, but they don't seem to add up to much. And, of course, this was going to be my Really Productive Day ( Read more... )

I did manage to write 2000 words, after all. I still feel like the whole book so far is made up of random jigsaw pieces, and every scene will need a great deal of revision, but at least I am still moving forward, albeit in a shuffling Igor-like fashion (neeeeeed braaaaaaaains ( Read more... )

Usually I write from 11:30 to 2:00 pm. or thereabouts, when my toddler is napping. Today, however, said toddler refused to nap, nohow, contrariwise. I was having trouble getting my head together anyway, thanks to it being a certain time of the month* but that really put gum in my mental works. Now I have to write at least 1,400 words tonight to ( Read more... )