Tuesday, January 01, 2008
New Year's Grump
Yeah, it's 2008. And I'm grumpy. Shouldn't be. But I am. Why? Tomorrow I have to get my car looked at. That's one reason. I may have to drive it 50 miles away if the issue is serious, since it's under warranty. Only the only dealer is 50 miles away in the commute direction in what I believe is, in fact, the official worst commute in the entire United States of America.
Sigh.Also I didn't write a word today. I worked more on uploading the new website, which was more work than I expected and then I overlooked a typo and had to re-upload a bunch of files. There's more clean up to do. Rats.
Then I watched 4 episodes of Buffy with my son.
Now it's late.
But, it's still a spanking new year and I haven't broken any of my resolutions yet. This is good. Plus, unless Scandal gets pushed to 2009, I should have two books out this year which is a good thing.
So, yeah. Happy New Year everyone!
Please think good thoughts about my car. That could help avoid a big bill just when my son is getting braces...
Labels: big fat hoo-ha, holidays, writing
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Another Eve For Me
I hope everyone who celebrated Christmas had a wonderful holiday full of good times, good friends and good food. Same for everyone else, too, for that matter. My day was really lovely, all three of the above were experienced.
I just now had the most interesting thought about Xia's story. Up to now, my heroine has been the adopted sister of Harsh, a character in
My Wicked Enemy (Formerly Magellan's Witch). But, I just now thought, what if she's not? Interesting thought.
Tomorrow I start hard core on Xia's story. I have to write really fast.
Sigh. Which makes this the Eve of Lottsa Writing for the next 4 months.
Labels: holidays, Xia
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Evening Thoughts
The presents are wrapped. So, my evening is free.
This morning I notebooked Xia and went off on this tangent and after 40 minutes of that, I thought,
yeah, this is great for some other book. And then I had this flash of insight, or maybe just relief because the warm down period was starting, at any rate, I worked out the backstory for my heroine. Sigh of Relief.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Labels: holidays, relaxing, Xia
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Looking for some pity here
I have a cold. Ick. And right now I'm in the feeling miserable stage. To speed things along, go ahead and insert several sentences of whining bathetic self-absorbtion right here. Yeah. But I'm feeling even worse that that!
The holidays are distracting me. They should stop doing that. Miss Snark needs to stop distracting me. And other my favorite bloggers need to stop posting stuff I have to read. That's really distracting.
I'm still reading
The Historian and it's pretty good, but it's not keeping me up at night like I expected. It's wonderfully written, and pretty creepy, but not
really creepy, which is what I expected. In short, I expected a trope-busting exploration of Dracula, and so far, I haven't seen it in this book. But I'm not done yet. However, I am silently (unless you're reading this out loud) suspicious that the literary folk don't read enough genre novels to know when a trope has been really, truly and creatively busted wide open. Have none of them read MaryJanice Davidson? Did she not turn all-that-vampires-are on their collective pointy little fangs? Why, yes, she did. Further dissertation is probably unfair since I haven't finished the book yet, and maybe that's coming.
Last year I judged in the RITA's, this year it's the Golden Heart. My entries arrived today. I'm looking forward to reading them.
I have to get to work. Now.
Labels: holidays, self pity, vampires, writing
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