Year: 2017

It's been interesting. Lots of little accomplishments (my house has reached a level of clean/organized that it hasn't been in ages), interesting experiences - the Eclipse (it was amazing!!!!!), getting to know my grandson, learning to handle unstructured time, and slogging away on the first book. That last has been the most challenging. Not the writing - that's relatively easy. No, the problem is that I have discovered that I contain massive amounts of insecurities. I doubt that I can write anything worth reading, I worry that I will be a failure at something I deeply and earnestly want to do, and that I will not be able to find an audience that wants to read what I write. In short, the possibility of being judged, and found wanting, is…

I've been curiously unable to get down to the revisions (fear? doubt? laziness?), so I've been catching up on other things - home organization, fitness, cooking, reading. That last thing, reading, has led me to some interesting authors, including: Kat Howard - here is a link to some of her short stories - quite engrossing. Kristine Kathryn Rausch - she blogs at Kriswrites, and has put together a Holiday-Themed Bundle (bundles are an opportunity to get LOTS of reading for a small price - a very good deal). BTW, don't stop with her fiction (good as it is). She also writes with a cold and clear eye about the business of writing. Michael Connelly - on both audio and book (Kindle) format - I've been catching up with some of…

Man, has this been an exciting month! [progressbar heading="Novel Progress" wip_title="Alien8" unit_of_measure="words" your_goal="50000" current_score="15105" progress_bar_color="red" progress_bar_border="red" candy_stripe_options="simple" progress_bar_height="0" progress_bar_media="" font_color="" more_information="" include_hyperlink="" hyperlink_text="" hyperlink="" include_own_progress_bar=""] I visited Cleveland, to babysit my newest grandson. What a treat! He's 19 months, fully mobile, and loaded with energy. I took to napping every day, and still he wore me out. I headed back home just a few days after National Novel Writing Month started, and had very little time to write on the road, so - I've had to spend most of the last week catching up. I'm just a few thousand words down today, and have plenty of time to work, so I'm feeling confident that I'll be on track to finish on time by early next week. The novel is going…

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