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I have been silent for a while.  The silence hasn't been just an LJ thing - I have been sitting in a mental silence, much like being set on "pause," for several weeks.  Nothing has stirred me toward anything that resembles creativity or mental clarity.  I don't feel any desire to do more than sit here, observing the world as it goes by ( Read more... )

A minor announcement (but as a control freak privacy person, it feels HUGE):  I've unlocked most of my previous "for my eyes only" posts.  It's time to live a little more openly, especially when it comes to writing.  And, ya know, I wanna make friends and influence people and junk.

     I don't have anything to say about writing in this New Year, because there hasn't been much of it yet.  Instead, it's been a quiet mental time.  I'm the sort who would hibernate from late November until late March if I could. My natural tendency, post-holidays, is to avoid anything that requires me to move my hands (or any other part of my ( Read more... )

I am not the kind of person who likes to make New Year's resolutions, because I don't believe in setting an artificial date for the beginning or end of something (well, most of the time.)  However, this dark time of the year lends itself well to introspection, and with the change of not only the year but the decade, I am not without thoughts on ( Read more... )

I have a feeling that my posts here over the next month are going to sound something like a grocery list.  I'm not making apologies for that because I'm reserving the best words of my daily word count for what I'm writing for NaNo.  I DO regret, if anyone is reading this journal at all (and I would be sincerely surprised if someone IS) that you ( Read more... )

    I have intentionally been a lame ass for pretty much an entire month.  I had a feeling that a little R&R was in order during October.   I had an inclination to sign up for NaNoWriMo, and I finally summoned the courage to do so late last week.  I spent a few days revving my engine, and at 12:01 a.m. on November 1, I started writing.  Fueled by a ( Read more... )

This giant pause in writing productivity and its reporting brought to you by a Trip Home to See the Parents, followed by Birthday Celebration, version 37 ( Read more... )

I spent much of the weekend THINKING about writing, without getting a great deal of it done.  I did, however, manage to get Wahini out of the house for a bit to do a little "research" for HER novel that involved a visit to one of the last three important existing public buildings from the Revolutionary era left in America - namely, the Old Exchange ( Read more... )

It is 12:39 am on Sunday.  Saturdays are my usual "write all I can/want" writing day.  I am just now getting round to it.  ::sigh ( Read more... )