writer at play
Posted in inspiration, short stories on Jun 30th, 2009
Or it certainly feels like that. I met the last of my writing deadlines Sunday evening. I finally finished my month-long marathon through David Copperfield last night (just in time to add it to my June reading roundup). I feel incredibly free. And I came up with a silly celebratory short-short yesterday (creativity in thirty [...]
Posted in creativity, drawing, inspiration, journaling on Jun 28th, 2009
I have a hard time working on a big creative project during the summer. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent more of my life in school than out of it, and summer whispers vacation to me. Or maybe because summer is such a short season where I live and we’re eager to cram in as much [...]
Posted in linktopia on Jun 27th, 2009
The Publishing and Promotion Edition Paperback Writer’s ten widgets to help you find a title (yes, I consider coming up with a title part of the getting-published process. I wouldn’t bother otherwise. *grin*). So you wrote a book. Now what? Via Holly Lisle: Can an artist make a living with a base of 1,000 True [...]
Posted in gardening on Jun 24th, 2009
Slugs. In my lettuce. I never realized how many there were until I went picking this evening. *shudder* And they’ve already made raids on the tomatos I transplanted several days ago. Okay, no more Ms. Nice Squeamish Gal. This means war.
Posted in creativity, kids at play on Jun 22nd, 2009
This is what my back hallway looked like for three days during an art camp I hosted for my kids and those of two other families. The participants were six kids ranging from almost-three to five-and-a-half, with two other moms assisting and three younger siblings running/scooting/lying underfoot. We did a variety of projects from blow-painting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
My peas are flowering! Here are my pea plants. They’re in rather a sad tangle. I planted a variety that supposedly didn’t need support, but I should’ve run chicken wire on stakes between the rows. I did put in sticks here and there to try to support this mass of vegetation, but it was too [...]
On Memorial Day (and yes I realize that was almost a month ago–this is how bad I am about getting pictures off the camera), D. and I packed up the kids and went to a locally famous cemetery to gawk at the headstones and monuments. We saw the traditional angels: and crosses: as well as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, reading, reviews on Jun 12th, 2009
My May reads: Graceling Kristin Cashore Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Alison Goodman The Trouble with Boys Peg Tyre The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child Linda Dobson Graceling and Eon were similar in many ways–long YA fantasy with female protagonists in traditionally male roles, dealing with the double-edged sword of their own powers. I’m hard-pressed to [...]
Posted in book promotion, reading on Jun 7th, 2009
Eek! The next book in Megan Whalen’s Turner’s Thief series is scheduled to come out next year. It has a name and cover art and backcover blurb, which you can find here. Scroll down to page 9 in the catalogue. *squee squee SQUEE* No, it’s not like I’ve been waiting anxiously for the next book [...]
Posted in e-books, short stories on Jun 5th, 2009
In honor of the publication of A Plague of Chicken, my upcoming blog anniversary (give or take a month), and because I’ve been plain wanting to do this for a while, I give you A Light Repast–an e-book with two humorous fantasy short stories that were written around the same time as A Plague of [...]