Books Read for June: 2/9 (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 and Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old) (Still in the middle of 3 books, and doing that thing where I’m reading a little bit of
Writing Retreat Aftermath, Revision Thoughts, and Morning Pages
Happy Tuesday, squiders! I can’t believe it’s already June. Holy crapola. (Also, I did my book tracker for the month this morning, and I need to read nine books this month to be on track, so that’s a problem.) (I
The Same But Different
Hi squiders! Happy Friday! School is out, so I hope everyone is up for two months of chaos. My youngest asked if she could give her teacher (the one who had me in for the outlining talk) a copy of
Let’s Do This (Around the Madness)
Hi-ho, squiders, hope you’re doing well! I finally finished my readthrough today, and it has worked–I am ready and willing to dive into the madness that is revision (though I will admit, since I feel like the draft is in
Getting Distracted
Hello, squiders! As you can see, I have survived the children. (I called one poor child the wrong name like three times, and this will haunt me forever.) I think it went decently! I do like talking about outlining, and
Help, I’ve Been Asked to Talk to Children
Hidey-ho, squiders. Happy Thursday. I wrote 7K over the last week on side scenes (and also rewriting the climax, which still isn’t quite working, but it is better–but also I don’t tend to revise out of order and probably when
I Have Survived
Happy…uh, Wednesday, squiders! I have survived the second weekend of the leadership training I was helping lead (though there were many tears, and I’ve picked up some sort of respiratory illness). I will still need to help and guide my
Hooray for Emotional Trauma
Happy Tuesday, squiders! It’s still been hard to move out of the mindset of the leadership training and move on to other things, but I have started rolling on the revision for World’s Edge. I spent some time on Saturday
NaNoWriMo is No More (NaNoWriMoNoMo)
Howdy, squiders. I have survived the first weekend of my leadership training, and I got everything ready and dropped off at the consignment sale. Phew. Of course, now I need to get back into everything I neglected while I was
Too Easy
Afternoon, squiders. How’s your week been? So like we talked about last week, I hunted down World’s Edge, and I read it this week over a couple of days. (It’s about 100K.) I actually really enjoyed it. But I got
