Yesterday was a rousing success. Airport check-in, security, flight, and even baggage claim went as smoothly as fresh-churned butter. The only wrinkle was that we got the only cabby in New York who didn't know Astoria was in Queens, but since he didn't charge us the full price (and only asked about what Jalen said it should cost), I didn't let it ( Read more... )

Wow. It is now only 48 hours until the Great NYC Litmus test. By my estimation, at this time on Friday, I will be in a cab on my way to jalen_mara's house.

THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO!!!!

Tonight I need to clean, start packing, help my friend Olivia with some alterations for a dress, and maybe squeeze in some time to work on my list of questions for the ( Read more... )

I made it to emmaorgana's more or less unscathed on Friday afternoon, which cannot be said for poor grav_ity (major border-crossing headaches). On Friday evening we watched The Emperor's New Groove and The Princess and the Frog and then sort of simultaneously collapsed. Apparently we need laura_josephsen around to help us pull fangirl all-nighters ( Read more... )

Just got my second official "No" on the Shakespeare Thing. It's ever-so-slightly less bummy of a feeling than the first one, but the agent in question was from my A list. Ah well. I trust the recovery period will quickly clip down to almost zero.

Synopses! Scheduled for Saturday!

Last day of April and I completed the entire A-Z challenge on time! Also, this morning my sewing blog passed 10,000 hits!

Final batch:

W is for Walker, Sarah

X is for Xari

Y is for YoSaffBridge

Z is for Zotah Zhaan

In other news, I got three more query letters sent off last week. I was hoping to finally get some summaries written over the ( Read more... )

Today I am sleepy. I am still trying to fight off the tail end of a massive sugar coma state brought on by grav_ity and her tendency to enable habits of sugar and chocolate during epic fangirl weekends. Also, I drove for about 7 straight hours yesterday and opted to forego coffee this morning as part of "Operation De-Tox ( Read more... )

So, wow, it's been two weeks since I've posted ( Read more... )

As has been my habit for the past three weeks, I spent my Tuesday lunch hour watching the latest episode of Smash. I've never really done a "Hey, I'm watching Smash!!" announcement post, since I'm really trying to keep this journal more focused on my writing journey than my fangirl, but since Smash is about theater (and so is my book), a bit more ( Read more... )

Behold, my life for the next two weeks:


( Read more... )

I haven't actually done any WIP work on the Shakespeare Thing manuscript since last Saturday's brain session. Today I took my notebook with me to work, and I just spent my lunch hour going over all of my worldbuilding and feedback notes and made a list of four specific "fixes" to get me started. At least two of them (possibly three) are whole new ( Read more... )