writer at play
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2008
My New Year’s resolution last January was pretty simple: survival. Barring any unfortunate occurrences in the next 12-ish hours, I can say that I was pretty successful at that. This year, my resolutions are more ambitious, and can be summed up as more. This year, I want to do more of the things that uplift [...]
Posted in personal, rants, season of rains, writing process on Dec 30th, 2008
The Stories Xenobiologist Broken (an Elinor story) Exposure Beauty & Beast retelling (unnamed, because I suck at names ) The Wordcounts 4410 6244 1637 3510 Written in collaboration with Angst & Whining, hot chocolate, and the album The Better Life by 3 Doors Down. Not a bad end to the year. Working on Kai’s book [...]
Posted in reading on Dec 29th, 2008
We interrupt this blog to bring you a special announcement: Rabia Gale has finished reading the massive 700-page biography of Alexander Hamilton and can now move on to the next tome. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programing.
Posted in challenges, short stories on Dec 28th, 2008
2,177 words on the last story. Another 1K or so to go (I think. I’m horrible at guesstimating how long my stories are going to end up being). I’m going to push to finish it in tomorrow night’s writing session. Woo!
Posted in challenges, money, motivation, news, self-promotion, short stories on Dec 27th, 2008
I know that writing fiction does not generate much income. I know that most novelists do not support themselves on their royalties and advances. Then I read articles like this one and I really know it. It’s not the lack of money more than it is the lack of readership that bothers me. My husband [...]
Posted in pretty pictures on Dec 25th, 2008
Posted in short stories, writing process on Dec 24th, 2008
My daughter just made a big jump in skill level, from doing jigsaw puzzles with less than ten pieces to ones with25 pieces. She needs help the first couple times she does a new-to-her puzzle, but after that she’s good to go on her own. In fact, she’s done this one sports-themed puzzle so many [...]
Posted in challenges, short stories on Dec 23rd, 2008
An update to say not much has been happening on the writing front. Instead, I’ve been holding the baby, gearing up for Christmas, beating my husband at Settlers of Cataan (okay, he won once, when I wasn’t paying attention), and oh yeah, holding the baby. I still need to write story #4, but that will [...]
Posted in kids at play, pretty pictures on Dec 20th, 2008
The Firstborn loves the snow. He loves to dig in it; loves to scrape it and sweep it off cars, ledges, steps; loves to shovel it; loves to run and stomp and kick it up. He is the first to suggest going out, the first at the door all ready to go, and the last [...]
Posted in kids at play, personal on Dec 17th, 2008