Emailed agent and told him to pave the way for more time on the Japan book. I got 1k done yesterday on it and played with the twins as a reward. The book was due at the end of the month, but I've pushed it out to mid-May. Generally 6 weeks in nothing in publishing time but it still makes publishers cranky. I have 7k done on the twins already ( Read more... )

Sitting in chat, got nothing done on Nikki but spawned tons of ideas for the twins. Not sure if this is good or bad.

wave to the Russian. Hello? How did you track me down?

Sigh, new school is good for Zac but they require he wear tennis shoes. His feet are so big that we can only find shoes over the internet and have no chance to try them on before hand. Today the school sent him home with what they're calling ingrown toenail. Quick research shows that shoes are the cause of ingrown toenails and that once you get ( Read more... )

I've been cleaning in the library and starting to be able to see the floor. There's one odd stain that I'm afraid might be mold firmly rooted. Need to declutter more and more as mold will start to grow on anything that sits too late and is anywhere remotely able to retain moisture. I noticed a scrapbook on the bookcase has something that might ( Read more... )

Been NOT watching a tv series called MISSING on netflix. Basically I start the episode and within a few minutes, I'm zooming through the show on fast forward. I'm now trying to figure out how it got to third season when it can't keep my attention. Not even sure what makes it so unwatchable. As a storyteller, I want to find out ( Read more... )

After feeling like I was writing a logic loop, I've decided to back up a few paragraphs and change stuff. Yes, in real life you get the stupid "we weren't going to do it but then we do" but it doesn't work well in fiction.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

OMG, so much to do and its 2012 already!

Well, copyedits for ELFHOME are done and I'll mail them tomorrow. Don wants to go to a local shrine and do a New Year Day prayer. Tsunami siren will be blowing shortly. Later, I'll have to mow the yard, once I clean all the firework debris out of it.

Threw up a snippet as xmas present on facebook. So far only one person has been a jerk enough to post "Oh your sentence is clunkly -- just thought you want me to point it out in public. See how great a grammar nazi I am?"

Grrrrr, reminds me why I don't post snippets often.

A few days ago my sleep schedule got blown completely out of the water and I'm now on some weird 2am to 11 am sleep pattern. Not good but I'm not going to worry too much about until after Christmas. In the meantime, though, it meant I was still fast asleep when Don made arrangements for the Terminax guy to come and inspect since three houses ( Read more... )