...Or to co-working, if it's a co-working night.

Anyway: after a week and a half of plodding through Downbelow Station twenty pages at a time, today I spent twenty minutes thinking I was about to reach the halfway point. And then I realized my math was wrong and I was still not halfway through the book, and the disappointment of not being halfway ( Read more... )

First off: My friend Mer is kind of a rockstar. Where by "rockstar" I mean "person who is celebrating her three-book deal with HarperCollins Children's by wishing her home office had doors." Writers: all glam, all the time ( Read more... )

Deadlines! I'd forgotten how useful deadlines are. Especially the kind of deadline that materializes when you say something like "I am up for critique this week? No, that's fine. I'll post my story for the group tomorrow ( Read more... )

So last night was supposed to be co-working, and I guess I am gradually improving at the "co" part, because this time I ... managed to run across the other person who was there for co-working as I was getting ready to leave. Maybe next time I will actually locate him in time to sit together ( Read more... )

After an out-of-sorts and vaguely off-kilter week, I had the best possible weekend. It involved two nights in a row getting more than eight hours sleep, an afternoon-devouring nap, watching a couple of movies and some TV from the DVR, reading an entire book (Nameless, by Sam Starbuck--recently reviewed in VOYA, but I read it this weekend because I ( Read more... )

I am not saying I have a case of the Mondays, I am just saying. Today was not my best day ever ( Read more... )

Last night I set out to attend MWW's alternate-Tuesdays co-working session, and then totally failed to actually meet up with anyone else from MWW (or any random strangers, or anyone at all) to actually co the work with. (I think I did spot someone I knew from MWW at one point, but he was in the company of two people I didn't recognize, and not ( Read more... )

1. Today, for the first time, I went to a meeting of the Milwaukee Writers Workshop's short story critique group. I'd done some co-working with MWW folks back in October, before the flu and the holidays derailed me. Co-working was just like Write Club except with fewer, you know, manwhore discussions (so not really like Write Club at all) but ( Read more... )