writer at play
Posted in numbers, short stories on Jul 29th, 2008
Wrote some more of yesterday’s short story. Not much wordage, but after such a long hiatus from original fiction writing, it’s good to get my toes wet. Y’all need to keep telling me to come on in, the water’s fine.
It is, isn’t it? Not too cold, right??
Posted in inspiration, short stories on Jul 28th, 2008
Today, I started a short story. I wrote:
My daughter stalks me through amber chambers shaped from the secretions of our ancestors.
And promptly stalled out.
Funny, that. It seemed like such a cool and well-put-together story while I was nursing the baby at 4 am this morning…
Posted in money, short stories on Jul 25th, 2008
One of the nice things about having a story published (besides the validation of having someone who is not your husband or best friend liking your work and making it available for dozens of strangers to read) is that occasionally you get a check for it. Now I’m too mercenary to frame said check and [...]
Posted in news, personal, short stories on Jul 24th, 2008
I am typing this one-handed as I hold a cute snuggly sleeping baby. Yes, folks, the new little guy is here and home from the hospital. He’s a big little fellow–2 pounds heavier than his sibs at their births–but cute as a, um, very cute button. I am very happy to have him here, but [...]
Posted in blogging, personal, website tinkering on Jul 19th, 2008
I found a template that I like much better than my old one; hence the new look of my fledgling website. The color scheme is pretty similar to the one of the old design, but I find this look more readable. The font is a little bigger, the text area is not crowded out by [...]
Posted in creativity, inspiration, reading on Jul 17th, 2008
Last post I talked about how I’ve (more or less) come to terms with the fact that there are certain phases of my life (ie: pregnancy) where I don’t have the physical, mental or emotional energy left over for writing. What few resources I have are given over to taking care of my family (I [...]
Posted in creativity, guilt on Jul 16th, 2008
According to the Rabiaesan Calendar, this is the Year of the Zombie (another note: the Rabiaesan Calendar skips around a lot, but began last year in November). Strangely, I cannot write while pregnant. This is probably because all my creative brain cells migrate down to the uterus to supervise the delicate and complex task of [...]
Posted in e-books, news, short stories on Jul 15th, 2008
Today is LAUNCH DAY of my brand-spankin’-new website. This means that I have now put the URL in my email sig line, informed friends over at LJ and Facebook of this site’s existence, and put “World’s Greatest Writer Found Here” in my meta tags. Now I just need to get out of the way of [...]
Posted in news on Jul 10th, 2008
I just got a “revise and resubmit” request from a magazine, a first for me. Of course, I have no brain right now (baby’s due any day now!) but revising to editorial request will be an interesting process for me. I’ll keep you posted on how that goes.
I’m still trying to get the kinks out of this website before I “officially” go live, but I couldn’t resist sharing this with you. Note that yours truly is on the list of contributors.