monday morning miscellany
Happy Halloween week, everyone! Here's hoping that any number of you have fabulously fun plans arranged and are looking forward to the holiday. Over here at this corner of the Internet, I am planning to play backup band to 
vivien, who will be handling door-answering and candy distribution for the neighborhood kids. There are a LOT of kids in this neighborhood, it turns out, and I am very good at running refills from the kitchen to the door while she cackles at everyone in costume.
It was a gorgeous fall weekend here, and now they're predicting fog (?!?) and snow (at least that makes sense) for today and tomorrow. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish I was curled up with a cup of hot tea and a book, but I have to finish work first. C'est la vie.
Speaking of books, I am not only planning but committed to doing NaNoWriMo this year. I figure if I can harness the same discipline and energy that I used to complete my dissertation in a year, I can certainly manage a month of writing - and it's said that it only takes three weeks to form a habit. I guess we'll find out. Anyway, I'm silveraspen over at the site and on the forums; feel free to add me to your contact list if you're Nano-ing this year, too.
In between writing, research, work, and everything else, I'm also finally getting around to catching up on my backlog of nonfiction reading. This week's books are Alice Flaherty's The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain and Steven Coughlin's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Chronic Health Conditions, both of which are quite interesting to me for different reasons.
Who knows, maybe I'll even get around to posting a review. Eventually. Someday.
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vivien, who will be handling door-answering and candy distribution for the neighborhood kids. There are a LOT of kids in this neighborhood, it turns out, and I am very good at running refills from the kitchen to the door while she cackles at everyone in costume.
It was a gorgeous fall weekend here, and now they're predicting fog (?!?) and snow (at least that makes sense) for today and tomorrow. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish I was curled up with a cup of hot tea and a book, but I have to finish work first. C'est la vie.
Speaking of books, I am not only planning but committed to doing NaNoWriMo this year. I figure if I can harness the same discipline and energy that I used to complete my dissertation in a year, I can certainly manage a month of writing - and it's said that it only takes three weeks to form a habit. I guess we'll find out. Anyway, I'm silveraspen over at the site and on the forums; feel free to add me to your contact list if you're Nano-ing this year, too.
In between writing, research, work, and everything else, I'm also finally getting around to catching up on my backlog of nonfiction reading. This week's books are Alice Flaherty's The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain and Steven Coughlin's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Chronic Health Conditions, both of which are quite interesting to me for different reasons.
Who knows, maybe I'll even get around to posting a review. Eventually. Someday.
This entry was originally posted at http://silveraspen.dreamwidth.org/302018.html and mirrored to LJ. Please comment where you wish! (There are
comments currently posted at Dreamwidth.)