On Tuesdays I will be free.
Free as a jailbird!
Until I tackle my WIP to-do list, that is. Then I’ll be shackled to other responsibilities…
Who said adulting is easy? Teenagers think this…
Continue reading “Speeding toward the light at the end of the tunnel”
Sitting on the sun-flooded back porch, sipping coffee and enjoying the still humidity-less atmosphere, I see the Beagle approach. Shortly before he gets to my chair he lowers his head and barfs up some bile.
Continue reading “Idle with bursts of forward propulsion”So this NaNoWriMo thing has been kind of unconventional for me.
To be clear: I’m writing, daily, but I’m not writing the memoir as I originally planned. I have my reasons – partly because I have to have oodles of uninterrupted time to go back to that childhood memory of me in the hospital, and live in it, if you know what I mean. I have to find that little girl voice and experience the experiences, so I can put them in words.
I can’t do that when I have to constantly go to the rink or cook dinner or answer questions or supervise chores or feed guinea pigs or go grocery shopping or argue with teenagers…
Anyway. Continue reading “Squeezing in writing during youth sports weekends”
Good morning from my *office* on the living room couch. 🙂
I have declared, starting today, that every weekday morning from 9 to 11:30 am are my official office hours.
This will be the designated time I write my words. Continue reading “Ramble during office hours: contest writing”
On December 20th of this year, a very nice thing happened to me. I received a response from a contest I had submitted to back in the summer. Continue reading “Why *how* you write matters to those who read”
Today was the second time ever that I have submitted to a writing contest. Continue reading “#AmWriting and entering contests”
Someone somewhere once wrote that if you do a push-up after every bathroom break you take, it becomes habit and you won’t even think about it anymore.
Pee, drop down to the floor, do the push-up, get up, wash hands, leave.
Brilliant. Continue reading “On exercise habits, writing, facing fears and entering contests”
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