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Tag: writer’s life
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Mutter of Writer
I’m engaging in a bit of procrastination this morning. I really ought to be cleaning the kitchen. Most of our day will be out of pocket – going to see the house for the first time, dinner with friends, several hours of driving – so I have about, um, four hours to write, make art,…
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Betwixt and Between
That’s where life is right now. There’s a big transition in the works, but I’m neither there, nor fully here at this point. This seems to be a theme through my work. I’m working on illustrations for another collaboration with Lawdog, and it seems to be progressing very slowly. Still, in time we’ll have AstroLizards…
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Work Weekend
So I have three days off from the day job, and my reaction was ‘goodie! I can do the other job!’ and maybe I’m broken, but this is what I mean when I say that… I started my morning a little late, with the Mad Genius Club blog post, wherein I postpone the deadline for…
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Publishing schedule and stuff
So I was sitting here looking at what I’ve gotten done this year, what’s coming next, and that sort of got me thinking… I kicked off my year with a story for Valentine’s Day in Hearts’ Enchantment. The was followed by a sword-and-sorcery tale in When Valor Must Hold in March 2020 Release of…
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Happy Monday
I’m sitting here, holding my socks in one hand and coffee in the other… how am I typing, you ask? Well, I keep putting my socks down and sipping my coffee and touching the keyboard and repeating it all very very quickly. Not really. It just feels like that after this weekend. You know…
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Progress Report: May
I’ve been tracking my productivity all this year and since a couple of you data geeks have encouraged me, I’ll keep posting it. I’m definitely still tracking it, and will be through the end of the year at least. This is going to be a rollercoaster ride, could be interesting to look back at…
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Time Management for the Creative
One of the hardest things I have to do, in terms of self-discipline, is to tell myself no. No, you cannot take on that project. No, a graduate degree is just not practical within the current framework of your life. No. No, no, no… My husband and dear First Reader would tell you that I…
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Questionable Decisions
I haz them. I also have – for a while, at least – an office. So this is what happened… we own a little house that isn’t the one we’re living in. It’s a tiny house, frankly not in the best condition (needs modern windows, ceilings, um, other things), with a single bedroom and while…
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Guest Post: The Heart of the Matter
Amie Gibbons has a new book out! She’s on a blog tour as a result of it, guesting at other’s blogs with some lovely writing that isn’t her fiction as a sample of what you can get between her covers. If you haven’t yet read one of her books, they are fun romps – sweet…
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Creativity Amid Chaos
I was sitting here wondering what I could write about, when it dawned on me – slowly, and through a lot of clouds – that what I needed to write about was not writing. I have been acutely conscious that since sometime in, um, possibly January (in other words, all of this year) I have not…
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Blind Writing
Sometimes pulling words out of my head is as hard as pulling teeth. I sit here for long, silent moments before I finally get the fingers into motion and make words come out. And even then, it might only be in an exercise like this, where the brain feels fuzzy and empty, like a warm…
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Checking In
I’ve had a lovely week off between contracts, and today it’s back to work. I don’t know what to expect – I don’t even know my hours, yet! But I am trying to get the blog onto something approaching a schedule, again. I’d meant to do so much – including prepping blog posts – this…