28,500 words on my new book, which means an average of 8k per week at present. Goal is to be done completely, including edits, by Christmas, so I can send it out to Harlequin for a critique over January/February. It’s not even typed into the computer yet! Still waiting on the critique from Harlequin for [...]
Archive > September 2009
Where’s the jewelry I was promised?
Happy 10th wedding anniversary to me; I just successfully mowed a seven-inch tall one-acre lot with only a push mower. Apparently I improve with age, and my husband is lucky to have me ;)
Still making progress.
Up to ninety-eight hand-written pages on this new PNR and loving the progression of the story!
Rain.
It’s rained every day since we returned from vacation, which means six days straight. On the good side I’ve seen four movies (I highly recommend The Secret Life of Bees and Ondskan) and have written about 17 pages of my book. Next week doesn’t look any better, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I’m reasonably [...]
Inside the Actors Studio…
did an interview with the cast of the Fox television show Family Guy. The creator of the show (and one of my favorite atheists), Seth MacFarlane, was on the panel. James Lipton asked the question, “And finally, if God exists, what would you like to hear him say when you enter the pearly gates?” MacFarlane [...]
Gluten! Be gone!
Getting over the accidental glutening from this past week has been rough. Extreme fatigue, never feeling hungry, low mood, emotional overload, et cetera. Luckily those are loosening up as the week progresses, and I’m no longer going through the day with my eyes half-closed. The uber headaches are gone, and my mood is getting a [...]
The details.
1. Any time you go on a ‘family vacation’, it is not actually going to be a ‘vacation’. At least not in the same sense it is when you go solo or with your spouse. The Kid had an awesome time, but was so overwhelmed with everything that he saw and experienced that he turned [...]
