No, I’m not talking about the black and white robes nuns wear and not riding habits either. I’m thinking about how we establish routines, even if we’re breaking a good habit by allowing a bad routines to creep in. It’s been claimed that it takes 21 days to build a new habit. It certainly doesn’t…
Last week was insane, this week is crazy. I’m not intentionally maintaining any sort of radio silence. I’ve been taking stuff in lately, and not doing much on the putting stuff out front. I’m still slaving away on the short story I’ve been working on and this morning the words came a bit easier than…
Tomorrow’s the big day. DD’s first day of middle school and DS’s first day as a BMOC — yah, he’s a fifth grader. Today’s kinda crazy rushing around trying to get everything finished and together for tomorrow. I really didn’t like the alarm going off at 6am in preparation for this momentous occasion. We’re also…
Frustration levels are still high. I picked up a firewire cable because you can start it up in target mode and use it a hard drive for another firewire capable mac. I can SEE the laptop’s hard drive on the desktop of my G4 (most of the time). Problems start when I try to open…
I joined Bria‘s writing goals accountability thread on Romance Divas‘s forum and have been thinking about time management a lot lately. The other night, Andi and I were talking about how this past year has flown by so quickly. There’s lots of theories out there and I’m not going to dig into any of them…
I’m late in posting this, but I didn’t want to ignore it either. Wordle.net is an awesome way to lose a few hours messing around. Call me crazy but this is my favorite new lens. I rushed pasted in my three WIPs. Bria and MJ and several other Divas did theirs. You can fiddle with…
[[Edit: For the non-writers out there, an internal editor is that voice in your head that tells you everything sucks and is always suggesting better ways to word a sentence, even if it just suggested changing it away from that particular wording not five minutes earlier. It can prove a block to writing if you…
I’m always left in awe by people who are adept at time management. You know those families who manage to do everything under the sun and still find time to relax and enjoy life? That’s so not us. We’re pretty laid back folks. Drama, over-planning and over-commitment are things we actively strive to avoid. In…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been either busy writing, or not writing. Duh, right? Ok. Lemme explain that a bit more clearly. I’ve been pounding out at least 2k words on the WIP on days I’ve planned to write. I’m doing the May RoDiWriMo (basically the Divas decided to do NaNo…
… is a dangerous thing. Maybe this is what Andi and Bria were getting at when they asked if I thought too much craft info stuffed in my head was a bad thing<tm>. I admit I was pretty bored with the workshop on Saturday as the nuts and bolts were gone over. It’s a good…