It’s a wet Beltane, but that’s a good thing – we need the rain, and it smells green and growing outside. I spent my Beltane at the hospital, getting a Remicade treatment, and I slept through it. I’m so tired! But so much has happened in the past week, I’m not surprised! I’m now officially a …
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(tgif) The day after…
Posted on April 27, 2012
No writing yesterday on Forgotten yesterday, but I wrote all the emails I needed to (now I just need to actually send them) and wrote the back cover copy for Spells, which I also need to email. By the time I got home yesterday, my hands hurt so badly that I took some muscle relaxants …
(personal/writing) Suck it up, buttercup (or the need to stop looking for excuses)
Posted on April 26, 2012
I haven’t posted much lately. I haven’t really been writing, either – I’ve been stupidly busy, but that’s not an excuse. I was listening to Nathan Lowell’s excellent #tommw podcast (http://www.nathanlowell.org/tommw/) and he talked recently about not making excuses for why he wasn’t writing – the fact that he had to stop doing that and …
(writing/personal) Turning over a new leaf
Posted on April 3, 2012
I’m trying to make myself a little more accountable lately. Hopefully, this time, the change will stick. Miles walked today: .87 (I walked 1.07 miles yesterday, so I’m not sure where I am. I’ll figure it out for tomorrow’s blog.) Morning Pages: Day 63 – I’ve done two full months, and I think it’s finally …
(updates/personal) Yep, still here. Not dead. At least, not yet.
Posted on March 15, 2012
I hate Daylight Savings time. Just sayin’. Also, I can’t update my website from work. Nor can I look at Pinterest anymore (dammit!) and I can’t read my G+ stream. I can post from my Google Reader to my G+ stream (don’t ask, our firewall is WEIRD) and I do have my phone, so …
(to-do/writing/personal) Sundays are days of rest. Really.
Posted on February 26, 2012
Even when you don’t get home until 3:30 am from a ghost investigation – it’s still a day of rest. A day to catch up on Once Upon a Time (my new favorite show, next to Castle and Bones), write, do laundry and dishes, and just renew myself. I really do like this new schedule …
(writing/letters/update) Day two of the month – on track!
Posted on February 2, 2012
Lots done today! 750 words – check. Letter sent – check (to my adorable niece!) Words on Forgotten – 1003 (made up for yesterday, so still on track for the month.) Court report sent in to Brigantia – check. Email updated – check. Going to fall into bed now – check.
(personal/to-do) Three day weekends rock!
Posted on January 15, 2012
I love three-day weekends, because I can do something Saturday, and Sunday just relax, then do more stuff on Monday and still not stress. Yesterday was my writer’s group, and I got some really good feedback on my stuff. More on that later. But today, as it’s so freaking cold out, I’m going to snuggle …
(writing) Just keep swimming…
Posted on January 11, 2012
I’ve just successfully completed Day 11 of the challenge over at www.750words.com – basically, it’s a month-long challenge of writing 750 words or more. I use the site for my morning pages – not really to write, but to brain dump for that day, before I actually begin my writing. It’s a practice that I’ve …
(writing) Musings on writing
Posted on January 5, 2012
I’ve been doing morning pages for five days now over on www.750words.com and I’m starting to see the results already. Morning pages are something that Julia Cameron talks about in The Artist’s Way, which I highly recommend – basically, it’s a brain dump of writing, just writing anything for 15 minutes, or 3 pages, or (in …