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In other news...
It's impossible for me to post here regularly, I've decided. Despite my best intentions, it just never happens ( Read more... ) -
Happy NaNoWriMo Eve!
National Novel Writing Month begins in just a few short hours for East Coasters. I'm hurriedly scribbling last minute plot and character notes in between slaving over some freelance writing assignments that are due this week ( Read more... ) -
Bullying. Queer. Suicide.
Three teens have committed suicide recently. Why? Because their classmates bullied them relentlessly about [perceived, in one case] sexual orientation. A fourth teenager killed himself after his college roommate videotaped (and put on the internet) him making out with a guy in his dorm room ( Read more... ) -
Speaking Up, Finding Time to Write and Darned Colombian Spammers
Speaking Up for SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson
Most of you, I'm sure, are already aware of the recent fracas over Dr. Wesley Scroggins equating Laurie Halse Anderson's SPEAK with pornography.I've been trying to compose a coherent post about this for days now, but it still makes me so angry that my mind blanks out when I try to type anything. It is ( Read more... ) -
Loki update! And words from Rilke.
I spent most of my time yesterday with Loki at the vet while the doctors tried to figure out what's happening with him. We won't know for sure until results from his blood panel come in, but the vet thinks Loki may have an irritable bowel problem. He got a shot to help with his stomach, and he's doing much better. No throwing up ( Read more... ) -
Daily Inspiration
One of my jonowrimo goals is to read a poem every day for inspiration. I don't have a bookshelf, because I'm what you might call "between homes" right now. Instead, I have trunks of books in a storage shed. I picked a book of poetry at random, flipped the pages open and read this:
I Have Longed to Move Away by Dylan Thomas
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I have longed to move away ( Read more... ) -
2010 JoNoWriMo Goals
I'm really excited this time around for jonowrimo. My goals are:
-Work on my YA fantasy novel every day, whether that's writing a sentence or 20 pages.
-Treat myself well on the days that I do write.
-Be kind to myself on the days that I don't.
-Read a poem every day for inspiration.Those are the goals I posted in the Jonowrimo thread, but I'm going to ( Read more... ) -
Giving Yourself Permission Not to Write
True confession here: Up until a few days ago, I hadn't written anything in months. (Not fiction, anyway.)
Part of it was my health--one of the reasons I haven't posted on here or the Blue Boards--and part of it was that my creative self? She dried up and withered away.
I'd been trying to resuscitate her for a while. I'd given myself deadlines and ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas Eve!
I don't typically talk about my religion--or any religion--on here since it's not usually relevant, but seeing as how this is Christmas Eve and I'm particularly grateful this year, I'm going to. If you're not comfortable with religious talk or Christianity, feel free to skip this entry. :)
( I'll even put it under a handy cut so that no one sees it who doesn't want to. ) -
Adventures in NaNo...and Reformatting
So. NaNoWriMo. It's a little late for an update, but I've spent the past week or so battling with a particularly horrible virus. One of my clients sent me a Word doc that infected my computer. After a while, I gave up trying to get rid of it and reformatted my hard drive. Luckily, I have an external hard drive and back up, for the most part, ( Read more... )