At least I hope so. As mentioned in my last post, this past week sucked mightily. I couldn't even seem to get the minimum done. And there was other stuff around it that only made it harder ( Read more... )

It has been a bad week that ended up bottoming out on Thursday. I've been sick, youngest lost her housing (stealing again) and we have no room for her so I'm starting to have really bad nightmares about her being on the street, we had to get the car smogged (the good news: the fixes we were expecting to make aren't going to be nearly as bad as we ( Read more... )

Because even though there's not much crossed off, it was an okay week. Pretty good, actually, if you can ignore the persistence of Best Buy calling 4 or 5 times a day hoping for an answer better than "I'll pay it when I can." Fortunately, I can. I just turn the ringer off on my phone because I pretty much recognize the number now. I mean, you know ( Read more... )

This past week went a little better than the few previous, even though I never did manage to post here at LJ to keep me on track. Earlier in the week went better than later in the week, and Sunday ended up being the worst day for pain (storm headache), productivity, and food (good thing I was way under my calorie budget for the week). I did end the ( Read more... )

Yea, not intended. And, honestly? No idea why. This whole past week in particular I've been pretty meh. Sluggish even. I'm not sure if it's because it's August, and while we were in toxic house, August was when I got the least amount of work done because it was so damn hot all the time (can you develop a yearly routine like that? If so, I should be ( Read more... )

Seems having a few unplanned things, even good things, can totally throw me off, and I end up not getting much done. While my son and husband both benefit greatly from a routine that rarely changes, I used to thrive on fluidity. Not so much any more. Seems I'm becoming more hidebound, and that kind of bothers me. Not so much because I have ( Read more... )

Seriously. Nothing spectacularly bad happened. I did sell a short, my weight stayed pretty stable (a little up, but not by much), we weren't able to get a mattress, my son turned 20. Thursday (mattress disaster) and Friday (run around and get things for kiddo's birthday then actually have said birthday) were probably the toughest, but it was ( Read more... )

Awhile back, I finally got back into submitting my short stories after not doing so for awhile because I was so frustrated with it in general. Then the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I really didn't do much of it because I was focused on other things. I did do some subs, managed a few small sales (like "God of Light" to Something ( Read more... )

Here I am, finally posting my goals for the week. Honestly, no idea what was up at all yesterday. I was motivated to write for maybe 5 minutes, got distracted with other things, and just never got the motivation back. Overall, the week was pretty meh, though I did lose weight. I struggled with writing and editing mostly. As usual, the first round ( Read more... )

So the main thing I figured out today: I need to do my 10 or so pages of beta reading before I tackle the editing. If I do it the other way, the beta read will never get done. And it's not that the editing project is badly written, but it is turning out to be a slow slog. Sometimes the poetic voice gets in this author's way, and I'm having to do ( Read more... )