I made it! I crossed the NaNo finish line! Wooo-hoooo! I will be back soon to bore you all to tears with my trials and tribulations during this month of writing, but for now, I have to get my butt out of the chair and go work out. I spent waaaay too much time sitting…
1. The new Harry Potter movie came out today! The husband and I will have to schedule a date night (hopefully in the next month) to go see it together. We rarely go to the movies, it’s almost an annual thing…we went for all the new Star Wars movies, of course. Then for all 3…
1 – It’s my birthday this weekend! I am not ashamed to admit that I LOVE PRESENTS!!! I adore getting gifts. To my credit I also get a kick out of giving gifts as well. One of the neat things this year is all the birthday freebies I’m getting! So far, here is what I…
It’s noon on Halloween and I’m bichok in my bathrobe. It’s one of my nicer robes actually, and I had a wonderful hot shower this morning while the husband took care of the girls and emptied the dishwasher. (How’s THAT for a Halloween treat!?!?) The bathrobe thing isn’t a costume, though I suppose frazzled mom…
I have often heard writers refer to their novels as their “babies.” It’s a metaphor that may seem to skate the line of hyperbole, yet is one I recently came to appreciate. Completing a manuscript is labor intensive, but it is a labor of love. (And yes, I intentionally used the word labor…twice…my apologies). Like…
Or at least if I had it together better. Or would that be better together? Peanut butter and chocolate. That’s better together. Anyways. I have a to-do list a gazillion miles long, but the real problem is, I have a gazillion to-do lists. One for chores around the house. One for stuff to fix around…
So, NaNoWriMo officially ends tomorrow,and for once I completed something with time to spare. Despite both my girls getting horribly (and disgustingly) ill over the last few days, while working and homeschooling and holiday shopping and making sure my house isn’t buried under a mountain of dirty laundry and dishes I managed to hit the…
Writing 50,ooo words in one month is certainly easier than lifitng an X-wing fighter out of a swamp with just my mind. So I gotta take that short little green Jedi Master’s advice and get to it it – not try to make my goal, but do it. It’s crunch time for NaNo writers everywhere,…
I’ve learned a few things along my NaNo 2009 journey, some of which I already knew: like trying to write when the kids are around is simply FFF: (Freakin’…or Flippin’…or the other less polite choice) Futile and Frustrating. I can blog with the kids afoot, literally. Lil G’ is pulling on my leg as I…
One of my beloved Monday Muses, Miss Aimee of Artsyville, recently posted some materials she created for a workshop on lettering she taught at KU. One of the hand-outs she created was a stream of consciousness instructional “lecture” on how to just let go and create. I am totally stealing her words and applying them…
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