It's been yet another busy week in the life of the Karrs, with several visits with old friends and a couple special summer treats.

( Old Friends/New Travels )

I decided last weekend that I wanted to write at least a drabble for Ro_Anshi's birthday this past week, but by Monday morning I was still suffering from lack of inspiration. Then a nebulous idea came to me while I was picking flowers Monday afternoon while a thunderstorm was blowing in. I don't know quite where this came from; when I began writing it ( Read more... )

I've been so inactive on LJ the last few months that I thought it might do to let my F-list know I'm still alive and well even if I've had time to read my friends' entries only sporadically since March and have rarely had time to comment. Except for the trip to Seattle in March, the business--serious problems with the print run of the new book, ( Read more... )

Downtime is a wonderful thing! 'Twould be even better if there were more of it and if one didn't become inundated with things to catch up on upon return from vacation. Ron and I had a great week in Seattle with our son, two days of which were spent on a road trip to the Portland area, the Columbia River Valley (one of the most beautiful river ( Read more... )

The drabble story is complete! I wrote the last set of drabbles early last week and got them into final form a few days ago. So here is the final installment of the story. R-rated. Not overly graphic, but not work safe.

( Saiyuki Drabble Story: Whatever It Takes, Part VI )

Last week was another frustrating week writing-wise. There have been too many demands on my RL time to find hours to write. But I set all work aside yesterday to give myself another "writing day." Started around 11 a.m., and wrote straight through 'til evening, except for a shower, lunch, and a half hour to get laundry started. The results of my ( Read more... )

Very little time to write again this week. But over last weekend I completed final edits on the fourth drabble set for this story, which I wrote last week. This is the first chance I've had enough free time to post them. Thanks to those of you who have been giving me feedback, either here in my LJ or via email. It's nice to hear what others think ( Read more... )

We did it!! It took us many long days over the past several weeks, two exceedinlgy late nights Sunday and Monday and an all-nighter last night, but Ron and I FINALLY got the Rail Depot book out to the printer this morning. For those of you who don't know, that has been our major, repeatedly-delayed publishing project on and off for the last three ( Read more... )

I had no time to write last week, writing challenge notwithstanding. Have spent far too many hours completing all final corrections and layout adjustments to the Rail Depot book files, and getting the book cover art completed, and working with the printer to get questions and bugs worked out on the digital files for the cover. But I did get some ( Read more... )

I gave myself a birthday present of nearly a full day to write today to get something done on my midwinwrite goals. I've made good progress on my Saiyuki story, the beginning of which is here.

( And here is Part II. )