So, before this week is out my mother and company (i.e. three other people) will be temporarily ensconced in my house; they will be calling this a vacation, I will be calling it an exercise in various virtues in which I am rather weak, like patience and keeping my freakin' mouth shut.

I've been trying to keep myself as distracted as possible lately ( Read more... )

Good week.  Scary, but good.

In four to six weeks I will either be very happy or very sad.

Keep the faith.

I am totally avoiding finishing the painting ( Read more... )

So, six people have gotten back to me about my novel, Silver. That's out of about eleven people who I've sent it to, I guess. *counts* Yeah, eleven. Of those other five I know they have had really busy, crazy, lives the last months or so. A friend here has had a nutso work schedule and family issues, my friend Matt's dad died, two of them have two ( Read more... )

Sometimes, after a particularly good day, I will have a bad day.  Sometimes it will also be particular, but not always.  Sometimes it is a particularly frustrating day, or sometimes a particularly impatient day.  Sometimes it is a particularly despondant day, the kind when you wonder if you will ever finish what you started or if you will fail ( Read more... )

I have a really, really good friend from high school who now lives a couple of states over.  We do everything we can to keep in touch despite our very different but equally hectic schedules, including having a weekly phone date.  We vent about our current stress-inducers and we talk about funny things we remember.  We try to work out problems or ( Read more... )

 Also?  REading author bios and interviews still makes me want to cry...and puke ( Read more... )

In about twenty-five minutes I'll be cooking dinner so I'll be free to do as I like by five P.M.  I've completely skrewed myself over, headspace-wise.  I'm irritated and stubborn and belligerant and I do not freaking want to edit my book, mostly because I know what a lot of work there is to do in the last 150 pages and I only have a passing idea of ( Read more... )

I've decided I need to detox so I'm going to be taking a week away from the book and the internet. I still want your feedback if I've given you anything to read, but know that I won't be seeing it until Next Monday evening. It's just that I'm driving myself crazy and I think I'm getting a little depressed so I'm going to hide everything my-book- ( Read more... )

I'm rereading a book called Bad Prince Charlie which remind a bit of Zelazny's Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming a book I adore but lent to Katie forever ago in high school and haven't seen since.  I'm reading it because it's cute and kind of funny and easy which means it's enjoyable without being influential.  I like that about it.

Meanwhile, I' ( Read more... )