Posts Tagged With: Writing Life
And the Winner Is…
Me! Because I got to watch the Oscars last night with the 2 most amazing kids in the universe. H stayed up for the first half. (And had trouble getting out of bed this morning. It required several loud Uh Oh’s on my part and “your nose has grown to the size of a pumpkin. [...]
Friday Ease
I’m in my usual writing outfit: old grey sweatpants, old green tanktop, and terry bathrobe. But I know that it isn’t a writing day. For one thing I’m too revved up for interviews to settle into the interiority that writing requires. And it’s a PA day. Normally I’d be taking my kids out somewhere–we’d planned [...]
My Workspace Revised
Recently, I rearranged the corner where I write. My workspace is 6 ft by 4 ft with another 21 inches of shared space on the table where my large monitor sits, also used by my older d when she wants to participate in the “homework club.” My work table is 2 ft by 3 ft [...]
My Horrible, Rotten, No-Good Day
It started this morning when the sound of rain woke me up. First I thought, “It’s raining outside, not inside.” I listened. Then I thought, “Nope, it’s raining inside too,” and I went to get the pot. Those of you who read my blog regularly may remember that the roof has leaked since we had [...]
On Writing
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own. (Flaubert’s [...]
Writing and Weeping
I intended to post my report about Scrivener yesterday, and I have photos from my Thanksgiving walk to upload. But instead I imported a document to Scrivener. It was a book I began months ago but had to put aside while working with my publisher on Web of Angels. Yesterday I looked at the few [...]
Writing Again
I have 2 projects on the go–a fun idea and a serious one. However, from past experience, I know that fun can morph into serious and serious can take a completely different turn from where I begin. So this time I have no expectations of where I’ll end up with either or perhaps with something [...]
Heat Wave Over! And my book is…
I’m a new woman! The heat took its toll. The only way I could tell the difference between a hot flash and hot air was that I needed 2 ice packs vs 1 to keep from turning into a puddle. My good humour about the whole situation deteriorated until poor A fled to look for [...]
Page 262
I am pushing to get as far as I can today because tomorrow, with temp going up to 34C (that’s 93F) tomorrow, I have no expectations of getting anything done other than lying in front of a fan. I’ve been learning to be more careful and punctilious in getting characters from point A to point [...]
Draft 10-A
This is it folks. The last draft. I got my editor’s notes–we had a wonderful meeting. I started yesterday.
*Draft 7
This is my good news for this Friday: I’m one chapter away from the end of this draft. I didn’t have time to prepare a post of news from the wider world, because I am frantically trying to finish this draft before my children are off for March Break so that I can spend the [...]
The Financial Crisis on Meds
I have 2 more pages to write in order to finish my sixth draft of my current novel. But before I do that I want to comment on an interesting blog that links the widespread use of antidepressants with the current financial crisis: ie too happy, too silly = irrational borrowing and lending. See this: [...]
