When my house is dirty, I go bonkers. This is my workspace. This is my play place. How am I supposed to write about assassins, angels, demons, and sarcastic vampires when there’s a spider web in the corner? A train set in the dryer? Toast crumbs ground into the carpet? I’ve learned to intertwine cleaning and writing. [...]
Archive for January, 2011
15 Minutes To Sanity: How I Balance Housework And Writing
Posted in Writing, tagged cleaning, I can't live here anymore! Flylady, writing from home on January 31, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Gah, Curse You, Internet!
Posted in Writing, tagged catching up, Internet Apocalypse, When the Internet crashes on January 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Internet has betrayed me. It crashes at the most inopportune times. For some reason, my phone also goes down with the Internet, leaving me with a feeling of abject isolation in the middle of the city. It’s a fairly lovely feeling sometimes, but not when I’m waiting for a response from my agent. Or [...]
Ten Word Tuesday: Shoes Hair Nails by Deborah Batterman
Posted in Writing, tagged Deborah Batterman, Mercedes M. Yardley, ten word book review, Ten Word Tuesday on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A thoughtful, evocative collection demonstrating the bittersweet strength of women. I wrote a more in-depth review here.
Fail Spectacularly
Posted in Writing, tagged fear of failure, Mercedes M. Yardley, number one fear, taking risks on January 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »
It’s been a rough couple of weeks, but I’ve learned something new about myself. Something that will help me in my personal life, and something that will help me in my career. I have discovered that I’m not afraid to fail spectacularly. Oh, failure used to be my number one fear. I spent so many [...]
I Did It!
Posted in Writing, tagged asymmetrical bob, daring, haircut, mod bob, red lipstick on January 21, 2011 | 12 Comments »
And I’m very happy with it. This is a pic of a nice, smooth, mod bob, but today it’s all punked out. Rock on.
Five Important Lessons I Learned By Reading Slush
Posted in Writing, tagged Hey I'm right there with you, Shock Totem, slush tips, tales from a slush reader on January 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »
1. If your cover letter is bizarre/arrogant/horrifyingly uninformed, you’re sabotaging yourself. I make a special point to read the submissions blind because too many writers shoot themselves in the foot. (More on that in a later post.) 2. Well, whaddya know, this business really is subjective! And we thought that was just a brush-off line. [...]
Why Am I Thinking Of The Rolling Stones?
Posted in Writing, tagged losing a child, mourning, the Rolling Stones, triplets, twins, you can't always get what you want, you get what you need on January 14, 2011 | 23 Comments »
At a time when my heart is breaking? We were calling the triplets Winkin, Blinken, and Nod, but discovered today that Nod passed away about two weeks ago. It’s funny how you can become so attached to somebody that you haven’t met, but that’s the way of it. While I mourn for the child that [...]
And Another Surprise
Posted in Writing, tagged losing a child, multiple births, SURPRISE, the universe owes me, triplets on January 11, 2011 | 10 Comments »
This one breaks my heart. Apparently they picked up two heartbeats on the ultrasound, but never heard the third. Whether or not the baby has passed on or was merely hiding…well, I don’t know. I won’t know until the 19th. It’s killing me a little. It’s funny how we’ve known about the three babes for [...]
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman
Posted in Writing, tagged Deborah Batterman, good reading, SHOES HAIR NAILS, short story collection, to-read list on January 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman is an evocative short story collection laced with truth and a touch of sorrow. Batterman’s book is an intricately woven work of stunning depth. It’s full of diverse characters with universal challenges, and the “it is what it is” way that they accept their realities is honest and true [...]
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