Some updates, rather than the interpretive dance I had planned. What can I say? Cold day, no leg warmers. Somehow I successfully purged all Flashdance clothing from my wardrobe. Sigh.
Hazelnut update: nausea has abated and I haven’t yakked in 5 days. I can now, maybe, enjoy Week 18 in digestive peace, wailed upon only from [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘writing’
12 October 2009
Neither here nor there
4 August 2009
Bullet points
All I can manage today is a list.
Agents responding to the most recent round of submission: three
Days since most recent round: one
Agents requesting a full: one
Agents requesting a partial: two
Agents saying “no thanks” last month: ten
This month: none
Average number of times PER DAY I’ve lost the contents of my stomach, last week: six
This week: [...]
7 July 2009
Chillin’
No quote of the day today. I’m way behinnd in my reading, and I got to coo at new neices and play with family and friends today. So I am not up for assignments and expectations and such. I’ve been a bit too self driven all my life and I’m not in the mood today.
Got [...]
1 July 2009
Found around the Web today
I think Wednesday might become “shamelessly linking” day because it’s also Movie Day, during which my kid gets an hour of crap from a DVD and I rearrange furniture or finally put away winter clothes or whatever (whatever meaning both of those things, at least today).
Here’s a lame attempt at mocking the literati, offering a [...]
16 June 2009
Tough call
For future reference, if you’re out of town and get a request to send a partial submission to the agent you really, really, really hoped would read your debut novel, it will cost you $30 to print it at Office Depot and $176 to print it at FedExKinkosFedOfficeFedWhatever.
Tough call. But I think since David Foster [...]
31 May 2009
Writhing on the floor
It’s a lot easier to send out a manuscript to an agent you don’t know than to people you admire.
So I”m curled up in the fetal position in a cafe, writing breathless emails to people I would never, in a million years, have read my book, asking them to uncap a red pen and let [...]
23 May 2009
You’re goddamned right it is.
8:47pm Saturday May 23, 2009. My novel is finished.
I brought it, Universe.
Now whatchya got?
29 March 2009
Well, nobody is bleeding, so I guess it was a good day
Spouse gave me a glorious day of writing as penance for the two trips he’s taken this month. I ate, I wrote I breathed with my eyes closed a few times. I got in and out of the car with ease, and managed not to have a meltdown over situations large or small. It was [...]
27 March 2009
Journal and publisher jitters
I really need to send off this article so I can clear it out of my head and either begin another or finish my book. But as always, I’m much more confident in the process than in the result. I’ll spend weeks, unless I stop myself, editing and proofreading and editing and proofreading and editing [...]
